Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday dug in against President Biden’s efforts to revive stalled legislation to send aid to Ukraine, saying the Republican-led House would not entertain it unless Democrats agreed to a far more severe crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border than they have been willing to consider.
Mr. Johnson’s latest ultimatum cast further doubt on the prospects of Congress’s approving Mr. Biden’s request for tens of billions of dollars in emergency security assistance to help Ukraine fight off Russia.
Republicans have insisted that such a package be paired with measures to clamp down on migration at the southwestern border, and a bipartisan group of senators has made considerable progress on striking a compromise to do so. But the plan has no path to enactment if the House, where a sizable far-right contingent is pressing for even tougher immigration policies, refuses to accept it.
- Consequences of maintaining current level of border crackdown severity: Debatable, but probably not too significant.
- Consequences of Ukraine losing the war: World alteringly catastrophic.
Mike, maybe possibly double check this one with your imaginary sky deity?
Vladimir “SkyDaddy” Putin says “Fuck Ukraine”.
Oh? you thought his orders were coming from god?
He already checked, and the guy said nyet, not yet, need more tiym still.
Konrad Johnson is doing exactly what he’s being paid to do
“Golly gee, if I tried to do the right thing, I’d lose this tenuous bit of power I was given. I brazenly claim God himself appointed me, but I’m too chickenshit to do anything with said appointment but be yet another shitheel who gets nothing done.”
Said Christofascist Howdy Doody who also pretends to be Speaker.
Speaker of the House; he speaks for Magical Skydaddy,
A candid photo of Mike Johnson without his skin suit:
