https://wsj.com/politics/policy/republicans-take-hard-line-on-bo…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) said Republicans need broad changes to U.S. border and immigration policy as a condition for joining Democrats to pass tens of billions of dollars in aid sought by Ukraine in its war against Russia.
Johnson said in a letter to the White House that “supplemental Ukraine funding is dependent upon enactment of transformative change to our nation’s border security laws,” and pointed to House Republicans’ H.R. 2 immigration bill as a starting point. That bill passed the GOP-led House in May with no Democratic support and never got a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
The situation at the border is an “unconscionable and unsustainable catastrophe, and we have a moral responsibility to insist this madness stops immediately,” he wrote.
“When we go home to our town halls, they ask us a very important question,” Johnson said at a press conference Tuesday. “How can we be engaged in securing the border of foreign countries if we can’t secure our own? And that is a question the White House has to help us answer.”
@QuirkyRat6mos6MO
One unlikely and apparently unthinkable possibility for Congress: 1) Write, debate, and vote on an Israel aid bill. 2) Write, debate, and vote on a Ukraine aid bill. 3) Write, debate, and vote on a border security bill.
@P0l1ticalPlatformEliPatriot6mos6MO
It's like the entire government is cloaked in secrecy (incompetence) and protection (media) from having to answer to the people they robbing thru taxation, apparently without representation for us either.
@BitternSidLibertarian6mos6MO
Warmonger Lindsey Graham Goes 180 Degrees
Funding the Ukraine war to America 1st securing the border in a matter of 6 months.
What's with is drastic change of heart?
@RabbitSavannah6mos6MO
He checked his poll numbers.
@EnlightenedUn1on6mos6MO
Speaker Johnson -- who often stressed the need to help Ukraine win against Russia -- says the $60b more that Biden wants is contingent on 2 requirements:
1) Added security for the US's own border, and
2) Clarity on the US war goal, with safeguards on the money sent to Kiev
@GoofyBudgetBillIndependent6mos6MO
I think (see: hope) that he's trying to tie down the additional Ukraine funding to an impossible to meet criteria. By voicing support for the nonsense but bundling it with something the White House clearly is refusing to do, he's bridging the two halves of the GOP. Maybe?
@ISIDEWITH6mos6MO
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