🚨NEWS — Speaker Johnson effectively quashes the Senate’s foreign aid bill. He says the House will “work its own will” on these issues.
by gym_fun
🚨NEWS — Speaker Johnson effectively quashes the Senate’s foreign aid bill. He says the House will “work its own will” on these issues.
by gym_fun
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So there are two options: (1) discharge petition (2) vacate the speaker.
God I hate that sniveling little fuck.
Absolute vile trash heap of a human. Strikes down his own border deal then says “we won’t pass Ukraine aid until we get a border deal”.
I hate these people and this party. I hope they burn in the next election.
I wouldn’t panic yet. This is the posturing phase. Although yes, he is a POS.
Johnson is Putin’s clown. I wonder how long it will take Americans to realise.
I guarantee that this fuck is the beneficiary of offshore account(s) that are funded by anti-American interests
Shame.
I wonder how much Russia is paying that piece of shit.
Pedophile Waldo
GOP: turns down bill that combined border and foreign aid because Trump told them to reject border provisions
GOP: we won’t vote on this bill since it doesn’t include border provisions
This little pretend Christian mother fucker is playing games with people’s lives.
Instead of directing disappointment towards the USA, how about focusing on where the real problems are; EUROPE. Europe should be able to out produce Russia and equip Ukraine all by themselves. This is in their neighborhood. History repeats over and over, Europe is weak and can’t solve their own problems.
They can just pretend the last bill didn’t happen and are free to gaslight their inbred constituents since they can’t read. They’re all compromised by Putin or are pure obstructionists. In turn, Trump is polling better than ever versus Biden. The US is completely fucked.
I hate that fucking nutjob fascist Putin-fluffing asshole. I cannot wait until November so we can vote out all these treasonous idiot Republicans. Fuck them and their paymaster Putin.
How the fuck does this man have more power than the president? I don’t understand shit about US politics.
Well we can now be sure who he really works for and let me tell you, it’s not the American people.
Johnson is such a classical conniving politician. He has no statesmanship at all.
He really needs to watch some porn
fuck you republicans
These chucklefucks are playing games with people’s lives. It’s not “the will of the people” or any other bullshit excuse except for groveling and paying tribute to the orange turd. They are playing games with our foreign policy to try to score some sort of political “victory”. This is the exact opposite of what the people want.
hopefully this monkey is deported back to shit hole russia so he can properly lick putins taint
Just read Liz Cheney’s book Oath and Honor. She spells out how corrupt Johnson is. There is no way this man will do the right thing.
Johnson is a dumbass , if he works with the dems and many rep on bringing this bill to the floor , and mtg or someone files a motion to vacate the speaker .
The dems could all vote to save him from being vacated .
He must not like being speaker, and want out .
Republicans are traitors.
Americans, you can find your rep here if you don’t already know who they are: [https://www.house.gov/](https://www.house.gov/)
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A “discharge petition” is the option here. You can read more about what that is here: [https://indivisible.org/resource/legislative-process-101-discharge-petitions](https://indivisible.org/resource/legislative-process-101-discharge-petitions)
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Usually when a bill is proposed and has significant support, the Speaker will just…take it to a vote. When they do not, a discharge petition is the way to force a vote, it requires “50% + 1 member” to sign on (218 of 435 members), and in this case a bill exists — from the Senate. Or rather, a bill is likely to exist assuming the Senate continues to ignore Trump long enough to pass the one they are currently debating.
Prior to this there has not been a bill to try and “discharge” this way, but now that there is…this is the option. I do not trust Johnson to bring a bill at all, much less that one is in the works. He seems to be taking his marching orders from Marjorie Taylor Greene who has been very vocal about her intention to bring a “motion to vacate” (aka attempt to fire Johnson, as they did McCarthy) if he even brings a Ukraine aid bill to a vote — it doesn’t even have to pass, even if one were to vote and fail she is threatening an attempt to remove him. It is worth noting here that the Democratic party leadership has implied they would help Johnson keep his seat, though obviously in exchange for some sort of political currency. McCarthy had a chronic habit of negotiating in bad faith, which is why Dems did not help him keep his seat; at the moment that does not seem to be an issue for Johnson – policy differences aside he seems to making his negotiations and sticking to the agreements he’s offering. [https://news.yahoo.com/not-worried-mike-johnson-brushes-075203154.html](https://news.yahoo.com/not-worried-mike-johnson-brushes-075203154.html)
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Johnson has also voiced opposition to the Senate bill because [checks notes] it lacks any provisions for border security, and says the Senate should have gone back to the drawing board on the combination border-foreign aid bill. Which was negotiated for four months by two hard-line Republicans and gave 95% of what House Republicans asked for and which had a chance of passing…until Trump said he wanted to campaign on the border issue and ordered the bill killed.
* [https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/politics/senate-foreign-aid-bill-ukraine/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/politics/senate-foreign-aid-bill-ukraine/index.html)
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But I digress – a discharge petition would remove the “choice” from the Speaker by forcing a vote rather than it being something Johnson would choose to bring to the floor, and there is not much MTG, Chip Roy, Gaetz, etc could do about that except to scream on cable news.
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Considerations: at the moment, the Israel part of any package is going to be contentious for reasons that are significantly more objective than the aid to Ukraine or Taiwan. Whatever right to self defense Israel has (and yes it’s a messy history),
* it does not extend to the fact that Netanyahu, the Knesset, and the high military command are flirting with genocide and other rather nasty things. The standalone Israel bill which just failed in the House did not include any considerations or limits for Israel, and did not include any humanitarian aide allowances/demands — and those exclusions are why it failed, not for what was included.
* There are also concerns that passing a single bill just for Israel would delay or prevent separate aid packages for both Ukraine and Taiwan, in other words the “brinksmanship” from the far right is quite obviously deteriorating trust in the rest of the government and some members requested an all-in-one rather than ongoing months of delays.
* For larger context for those less familiar, most of the American far-right is fervently religious in the big-E Evangelical Christian sense, and [skipping a lot of detail here] that very often includes a prophetic and/or apocalyptic Zionism which centers Israel…never mind, they don’t care about the existence of Israel for its own sake, they care about it because (in their mind) it plays a role in their theology and how they believe the world will end and how the book of Revelation will play out – and a zealously militant Israel entrenched in an apocalyptic war is something they feel is a religious duty on their part, not a humanitarian or self-defense matter. I am going out on a limb, but not very far, if I pose the hypothesis that this zeal is likely what shaped what was in that bill (and what was not) and, ultimately, why it failed.
* This apocalyptic approach of Israel against civilians (and not just Hamas), combined with the fact that they have been storing arms and munitions against this sort of event for decades, are the two reasons their situation is seeing a radically different political response than the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
* It is also notable that Ukraine’s ongoing discipline to fight information and military warfare rather than going tit-for-tat against Russian kindergartens is a big part of the ongoing political support…though obviously political support not paired with munition support is another topic, and it is critical you maintain your political fights in addition to the kinetic & informational war.
* [https://apnews.com/article/congress-israel-hamas-military-aid-speaker-johnson](https://apnews.com/article/congress-israel-hamas-military-aid-speaker-johnson)
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The Senate bill, so far, seems to be a bit more balanced at the moment though I’m sure a few Senators wish it were more militant (in Israel’s case) and what hints the House has given so far is that it would likely have more support than the standalone Israel bill just mentioned. It also, obviously, includes packages for both Ukraine and Taiwan.
So Republicans are done pretending they ever gave a shit long ago. This has to come to an end somehow.
What might break the deadlock is if the Israelis need more aid. If Hezbollah kicks off, that might do it.
Jokes on him, the House will pass a discharge petition and even vulnerable Republicans will vote for it.
Traitor. Giving aid and comfort to an adversary of the US