Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is refusing to permit a vote on Ukraine assist until it’s paired with the Home Republicans’ unpopular border invoice.
Punchbowl Information reported:
Speaker Mike Johnson instructed different congressional leaders late final week that he gained’t pair Ukraine assist with something lower than H.R. 2, in response to three sources accustomed to the matter.
Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer has been repeating, each in public and in personal, that H.R. 2 won’t ever move the Senate. An aide to Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries reiterated to us Sunday evening that H.R. 2 is a “non-starter.” No Democrats voted for the GOP bundle again in Might when the Home handed it.
Schumer is predicted to tee up the ground course of for the international assist bundle — with out Republicans’ border calls for — as quickly as at present. That may arrange a cloture vote later this week, on Wednesday or Thursday. This will probably be an important second for Republicans, particularly protection hawks like McConnell.
H.R. 2 is a nasty invoice. The laws does comprise a few good items, together with elevated border funding and the usage of know-how. Nevertheless, the great is outweighed by the dangerous, because it additionally requires the turning away of people who find themselves fleeing persecution and violence, and it requires the elevated detention of migrants.
It’s a very Trumpian piece of laws that has no likelihood of being supported by Democrats.
Speaker Mike Johnson is attempting to carry Ukraine’s democracy hostage.
The Speaker’s transfer is un-American, and it reveals how low Republicans are prepared to go to assist Putin and hurt immigrants.
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