After helping Democrats fund President Biden’s authoritarian regime for the rest of the year, House Speaker Mike Johnson is now gearing up to aimlessly dump more U.S. taxpayer money into Ukraine.
During a Sunday interview on Fox News, the weak-tea Louisiana Republican revealed several options for the House to ship tens of billions of dollars to Kyiv amid the latter’s ongoing conflict with Russia. The Senate previously passed a $95 billion foreign spending package in February that included funding for (mostly) Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan but zero provisions addressing America’s ongoing border invasion. The bill passed with the help of 22 Republican senators.
Among the ideas suggested by Johnson was using the REPO Act, which he claimed would allow for the sale of Russian sovereign assets frozen by the United States. As noted by The New York Times, “Only about $5 billion or so of Russian assets are in the hands of U.S. institutions.”
Congress advanced $113 billion for Ukraine in 2022 alone, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Another option considered by Johnson is a nonsensical plan backed by former President Trump to loan Ukraine the money and have the Eastern European nation pay it back to the U.S. at a later date. The idea has generated opposition and skepticism from some of the Senate’s more conservative members, such as Ohio’s J.D. Vance and Missouri’s Josh Hawley.
Johnson expressed interest in tying a provision to whatever Ukraine spending package is ultimately crafted that “would force President Biden to
