Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is refusing to permit a vote on Ukraine support until it’s paired with the Home Republicans’ unpopular border invoice.
Speaker Mike Johnson advised different congressional leaders late final week that he received’t pair Ukraine support with something lower than H.R. 2, in line with three sources acquainted with the matter.
Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer has been repeating, each in public and in non-public, that H.R. 2 won’t ever cross the Senate. An aide to Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries reiterated to us Sunday evening that H.R. 2 is a “non-starter.” No Democrats voted for the GOP bundle again in Might when the Home handed it.
Schumer is anticipated to tee up the ground course of for the overseas support bundle — with out Republicans’ border calls for — as quickly as immediately. That may arrange a cloture vote later this week, on Wednesday or Thursday. This can be a vital second for Republicans, particularly protection hawks like McConnell.
H.R. 2 is a bad bill. The laws does comprise a few good items, together with elevated border funding and the usage of expertise. Nonetheless, the great is outweighed by the unhealthy, because it additionally requires the turning away of people who find themselves fleeing persecution and violence, and it requires the elevated detention of migrants.
It’s a very Trumpian piece of laws that has no likelihood of being supported by Democrats.
Speaker Mike Johnson is making an attempt to carry Ukraine’s democracy hostage.
The Speaker’s transfer is un-American, and it reveals how low Republicans are prepared to go to assist Putin and hurt immigrants.
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