The House speaker is open to a stand-alone vote on Ukraine aid. Marjorie Taylor Greene isnā€™t going to like that one bit.

Poor Mike Johnson is in quite a bind. The House speaker simplyĀ doesnā€™t have a governing majority: It is borderline impossible to pass anything with only Republican votes, because the hard-right MAGA bloc wants to thwart governing at all costs. So he needs Democrats to pass anything that wouldnā€™t be uniformly awful for the country. Yet if he does rely on Democrats, that MAGA faction is prepared to depose him.

Thatā€™s why Johnsonā€™s new indication that heā€™sĀ considering holding a voteĀ on a Ukraine aid packageā€”one that would be separate from an Israel aid billā€”is so intriguing and suggestive.

ā€œI think it is a stand-alone, and I suspect it will need to be on suspension,ā€ JohnsonĀ told Politico, meaning that a bill funding Ukraine aid would have to move viaĀ a fast-track procedureĀ that prevents insurgents from bottling up bills in committees.

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    Poor Mike Johnson ā€¦

    I thought we didnā€™t know anything about his finances because he never submitted supposedly required paperwork upon getting elected. (Iā€™m playing on words here but my point stands)

    You made your bed chucklefuck Mike, now lay in it.

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      Heā€™s so poor he doesnā€™t even have a bank account! And I guess share a pornhub account with his son.