The Speaker has promised to push forward with a Ukraine aid package once the House returns from a two-week break.
RepresentativeĀ Don BaconĀ acknowledged Sunday that it is āpossibleā that Speaker Mike Johnson will lose the top House job over an impending vote on aid to Ukraine. āIām not going to deny it,ā the Nebraska conservativeĀ toldĀ NBCāsĀ Kristen Welker.
The comment comes as the House enters the second half of a two-week recess, which came on the heels of a tense fight over a government funding bill thatĀ barely averted a shutdown. Johnson entered the break promising to āturn our attentionā to Ukraine, an issue that has divided the fractious House GOP caucus and kept the U.S. government from approving an aid package, even as the SenateĀ passedĀ a $95 billion bill in February.
George RepresentativeĀ Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has long been staunchly opposed to U.S. aid to Ukraine, filed a motion to vacate Johnsonās speakership right as the House went into recess,Ā warning that Johnson āshould not bring funding for Ukraineā to the House floor. Greene has yet to say when she plans to move forward with the motion.
Damned if they do and damned if they donāt. They either get condemned for helping keep a GOP speaker in place or they get criticized for not helping and getting stuck another freedom caucus pick speaker, after they bicker for a month.