The above IS a valid question….
US House RightWingNuts….
And…
One Donald Trump also …
DO NOT WANT to let go of being able to beat down President Biden with the Immigration Issue….
Even if it holds up US Foreign Aid for the Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan …
The Republican US House majority margin is such (low single digit) that Democrat’s CAN get things passed with a minute amount Republicans…
But THAT could cost the Republican House Speaker his joib like it did for Kevin McCarthy who quit after due to the situation…
With Senate negotiators expected to unveil their elusive bipartisan border deal any day now — and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer floating a vote on the White House’s $106 billion supplemental as soon as next week — the watercooler chatter on Capitol Hill has turned to one elephant-sized question: How the hell do you get this thing past the Republican House?
Speaker Mike Johnson is under tremendous pressure from former President Donald Trump and other conservatives not to give President Joe Biden a win on border security — an issue that has plagued him in the polls — ahead of the 2024 election. And members including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) are openly threatening to oust the Louisiana Republican if he allows a new tranche of Ukraine aid through the House…
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Lawmakers in both parties told us yesterday that there’s no hope for a discharge petition to force a vote on a Senate deal. Republicans are too skittish to go against Trump and their own leadership. And Democrats readily admit that dozens of progressives and Hispanic Caucus members won’t support the deal at all because of the policy changes it’s likely to include and a process that did not include their input.
“I think it’s dead on arrival in the House,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a skeptic of the deal.
Some Republicans say it wouldn’t come to that, however. Crenshaw, for example, was adamant that even if Johnson is staying in touch with Trump and other border-deal opponents — and despite Greene’s threat of a motion to vacate — that the speaker wants to get to yes.
“I know how Johnson actually thinks, and he’s of the same opinion I am here,” Crenshaw told us.
Democrats? They’re not so sure.
“He’s got to decide if he’s going to do what’s right — or he’s going to do what’s politically expedient to just keep himself there for another — er, I don’t know how long,” Vicente Gonzalez said…..