After assembly with President Zelenskyy, Speaker Mike Johnson issued an announcement blaming Biden for the dearth of Ukraine support after which left with out taking questions.
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Mike Johnson blames the White Home, ‘I have asked the White House since the day that I was handed the gavel as speaker for clarity. We need clear articulation of the strategy to allow Ukraine to win. Thus far, their responses have been insufficient,’ then flees reporters. pic.twitter.com/P2O6ne4Zqg
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 12, 2023
Johnson mentioned:
I simply had a great assembly with President Zelenskyy. I reiterated to him that we stand with him and towards Putin’s brutal invasion, the American folks stand for freedom and so they’re on the suitable aspect of this combat. I’ve requested the White Home because the day that I used to be handed the gavel as speaker for readability, we’d like a transparent articulation of the technique to permit Ukraine to win. And to date their responses have been inadequate.
They haven’t offered us the readability and the element that we have now requested time and again since actually 24 hours after I used to be handed the gavel as Speaker of the Home. And so what the Biden administration appears to be asking for billions of extra {dollars} with no applicable oversight, no clear technique to win, and not one of the solutions that I believe the American persons are owed.
In keeping with Punchbowl Information’s Jake Sherman:
SPEAKER JOHNSON simply left his assembly with ZELENSKY. his place hasn’t modified.
His circumstances to cross Ukraine support are an immigration/border bundle and readability on the administrations technique on Ukraine.
Johnson took no questions from reporters.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 12, 2023
That sound you hear is the sound of goalposts being moved. Simply this morning, Johnson and Home Republicans claimed that the difficulty was border funding, In fact, they aren’t concerned enough about the border to cut their Christmas vacation short, however they claimed that the standoff was in regards to the border.
Quick ahead to lunchtime, and the issue is that Biden has given Republicans a technique for successful the struggle. Understand that Ukraine was invaded. Successful for the Ukrainians can be getting Russian forces out of their nation.
Ukraine just isn’t Biden’s struggle. so why does Biden should provide you with the technique for Ukraine to win?
The reply is that Republicans don’t need to help Ukraine, and Mike Johnson was too massive of a coward to face reporters and clarify why.
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