GOP-led House panel uses Democratic votes to push foreign aid bills, setting up confrontation with conservatives
Source: CNN
The GOP-led House Rules Committee late Thursday night used Democratic support to advance a series of foreign aid bills, a sign that Republican leaders will need votes from across the aisle to pass the legislation.
The move is likely to further inflame conservatives who are against additional aid to Ukraine and have threatened House Speaker Mike Johnson’s job over the issue.
The four bills head to the House floor on Friday for their first test on the floor. A vote on final passage is expected Saturday, delaying the start of a weeklong congressional recess.
The committee activity capped off another contentious day on Capitol Hill as the renewed push to send foreign aid to Ukraine has divided House Republicans. The right wing of the GOP conference has come out against the plan and vented their anger over a separate effort to change House rules regarding the process for removing the speaker – a rule change Johnson said Thursday he would not make.
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...are these far-right magats always referred to as 'conservatives' when we're 9 times out of 10 referred to as the 'radical left'???
...these magats are unAmerican putin-sucking fascists intent on destroying our democracy and replacing it with a trump-lead dictatorship...
...help johnson get the aid package through but I'd wish they'd stop calling these neo-Nazi's 'conservative'...
...magats...
