Rep. Mike Johnson can expect an embarrassingly brief tenure in the House speakers’ chair if he bows to Senate demands the lower chamber help send yet more subsidies for war in Ukraine.
On Tuesday, senators voted 70 to 29 in favor of a $95 billion spending package with more than $60 billion for Ukraine. The bill would also give $14 billion to Israel and $10 billion to “humanitarian” efforts abroad. The legislation brings U.S. taxpayers’ payout for the proxy war in Ukraine to more than $170 billion, according to The New York Times. The bill was the project of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who celebrated its passage with a Thursday statement.
“For three years, a policy of hesitation, short-sightedness, and self-deterrence led the world to wonder whether the United States still has the resolve to face growing, coordinated threats,” McConnell said. “But today, the Senate responded by reaffirming a commitment to rebuild and modernize our military, restore our credibility, and give the current Commander-in-Chief, as well as the next, more tools to secure our interests.”
Not included in the supplemental security package were provisions for the border as states struggle under the years-long U.S. border invasion. Last week, Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford became the face of a fatal border deal when lawmakers unveiled a $118 billion cruel joke that would have sanctioned more than 5,000 permanent crossings per day and asylum for all.
“This is a very bad bill for [Lankford’s] career,” former President Donald Trump said
