House Speaker Johnson WILL try to get aid for Ukraine and Israel……

There ARE US House Republican WingNuts that do NOT want ANY money for the Ukraine….

And are threatening to take away the Speakers job…

But?

House Speaker Johnson will try to get whatever he CAN get ALONG with the aid package that he KNOWS HAS to addressed sooner rather than later…

(House and Senate Bills ARE different and the vote for approval HAS TO BE identical )

And?

Mike Johnson IS gonna need the Democrats to get this done…..

THAT could cost him …

And?

WTF wants the job on the GOP side?

Democrat Jaffries will GLADLY take it….

 

Speaker Mike Johnson’s elaborate plan for pushing aid to Ukraine through the House over his own party’s objections relies on an unusual strategy: He is counting on House Democrats and their leader, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, to provide the votes necessary to clear the way for it to come to the floor.

If Democrats were to provide those crucial votes, it would mark the second time in two years that Republican leaders have had to turn to the minority party to rescue them from their own recalcitrant right-wing colleagues in order to allow major legislation to be debated and voted on.

Given Republicans’ tiny margin of control, Mr. Johnson will need their support on the aid itself. But before he even gets to that, he will need their votes on a procedural motion, known as a rule, to even bring the legislation to the floor — an unconventional expectation of the minority party.

That puts Democrats once again in a strange but strong position, wielding substantial influence over the measure, including which proposed changes, if any, are allowed to to be voted on and how the foreign aid is structured. After all, Mr. Johnson knows that if they are unsatisfied and choose to withhold their votes, the legislation risks imploding before it even comes up….

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Republican leaders have yet to release the text of any of the four bills that together will make up the aid package for aid to Israel, Ukraine and other American allies. And there are plenty of opportunities for the bipartisan coalition of support that would be needed to push it through the House to be derailed.

But Democrats have begun laying out their terms.

Mr. Jeffries told his caucus on Tuesday during a closed-door meeting that he would not be willing to support any package that included less than the $9 billion in humanitarian aid that was part of the national security bill passed by the Senate…

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Democrats also said they were concerned about the possibility that Republicans might insist on attaching amendments to the legislation that they consider “poison pills,” items that would make it impossible for them to support. Those would include any attempt to tack on their hard-line immigration and border security bill that would revive some of the most severe policies of the Trump administration….

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Mr. Johnson is also walking a delicate line. He has to tend to the politics of his own fractured conference without alienating the Democrats whom he will need to pass the security package — and, potentially, to save his job…

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