House Republicans will pass Ukraine aid after backing down on border demand

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Republican leadership appears to be officially backing down from their demand for lawmakers to address border security before any further aid was passed to support Ukraine in its war against a Russian invasion.

The news was made on Thursday at the House Republican retreat, with Speaker Mike Johnson telling reporters that bills to further fund both Ukraine’s defence and Israel’s military effort against Hamas would be brought up separately in the coming weeks. There was no indication that Republicans would continue baulking at the idea of passing either of them without first striking some kind of deal on immigration reform or border security that could pass both chambers of Congress.

In December of last year, Mr Johnson had made that demand explicit, telling the White House in a letter: “[S]upplemental Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation’s border security laws”.

But legislation that would have at least made an effort at reaching that “transformative change” died in the Senate after House Republicans made clear that the bill, a bipartisan compromise hammered out by negotiators from both parties with GOP leader Mitch McConnell’s blessing, was dead on arrival in the lower chamber. The legislation would have allowed President Joe Biden to shut down the US asylum intake system were daily illegal border crossings to pass a certain threshold. Donald Trump’s demand for Republicans to kill the bill to prevent his opponent from scoring a political victory in an election year is widely credited with much of the GOP opposition in the House.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-pass-ukraine-aid-215428020.html

We shall see.

[Lovie777]

1. Agreed...................................

we shall see.

[Nevilledog]

2. He's lying and this is just to thwart the discharge position.

In April he'll say no to presenting any type of Bill for Ukraine, Israel, or the border.

[Cha]

7. Damn him 👺

[BootinUp]

3. They are not done backing down. nt

[Lovie777]

5. Delay, delay, delay..........................................

there's a pattern here with GQPs.

[BootinUp]

6. Well yes, but within their members are more than enough

to force Johnson's hand, and secondly, I do not expect the Administration or the Senate to signal they will allow the changes being leaked. Those changes may not sit well even within the GOP members, especially if it means it will take even longer. I expect this will become very clear that they should follow McConnell's advice. I think he will have to back down again.

[texasfiddler]

4. If a couple of GOP representatives are threatening immediate resignation, it could happen.

[karynnj]

8. Depending on their district, they could just change to Independent and caucus with the Democrats

If they are in a Biden won district, this could make sense. Remember in 2001 or 2002, we regained the Senate because Vt Senator Jeffords did just that. Doing this, they could as +2 for Democrats, as their number increases by one as the Republicsns go down by 1.