Speaker Mike Johnson pitching GOP senators amid divisions on war aid, other funding

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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday will speak to Senate Republicans for the first time during a closed-door policy lunch, taking his case directly to skeptics of his strategy on government funding and emergency war aid to U.S. allies.

The meeting will come just 16 days before a government shutdown deadline and amid party divisions over supplemental aid for Ukraine, Israel, humanitarian assistance for the Gaza Strip, Taiwan and U.S. southern border security.

Mr. Biden has requested a $106 billion package, but Senate Republicans say it doesn’t go far enough to plug the U.S.-Mexico border and battle the unprecedented surge of illegal crossings. “Conceptually, and I are in the same place in the sense that we view all of these problems as connected,” Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said Tuesday. “That’s an opinion many people have. It’s not surprising, but in order to make a law, you have to pass both bodies and be signed by the president.”Conservative senators accuse Mr. McConnell of kneecapping Mr.

 

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