House Speaker Mike Johnson is in negotiations with the White House about funding for Ukraine, according to House Republican Leader Steve Scalise. Johnson has been discussing a package with White House officials, aiming to address Republican concerns while deviating from the Senate's $95 billion foreign security package.
@noelreports
We all know that #MoscowMike is going down to Mar-a-Lago today to coordinate with Putin's puppet to refine their plan to hand #Ukraine over to Russia without causing the GOP too much politically.
In Vilnius, Zelenskyi met with President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel. They spoke about the situation on the battlefield, Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and Ukraine's needs for energy equipment.
"We discussed defense support for Ukraine and strengthening cooperation in the defense industry, our integration into the EU and NATO, and the conclusion of a bilateral security agreement. Thank you for your unwavering support for Ukraine," Zelenskyi added.
@noelreports
Well, while the left side of our political divide is busy undermining the political capital of our POTUS and as usual the right side is outright openly siding with Putin, Russians have destroyed the 1.8 GW power plant for Kyiv.
Hopefully, they'll be able to soon deploy enough solar panels and batteries to help recover from that loss and even more hopefully we can soon get #MoscowMike out of our way so that we can resume arming our ally in Eastern Europe.
A US House vote on Ukraine aid isn’t likely until at least mid-April and possibly later with Speaker Mike Johnson still searching for ways to soften opposition from Republican hardliners, multiple party leadership officials said.
@noelreports
It's been obvious for a while that #MoscowMike will do whatever he can to block or at least delay sending military aid to #Ukraine
The discharge petition is the best hope as frustrating as that is so we need to figure out how to convince about 28 Republican representatives to sign it early next week.
Johnson promised to put aid to Ukraine to a vote after the Easter holidays.
This was stated by the chairman of the intelligence committee of the US House of Representatives, Mike Turner. Also, Mike Johnson allegedly made it clear that he supports Ukraine.
US House will presumably be able to proceed to vote on aid to Ukraine after Easter. This will likely be a modified package favored by House Speaker Johnson, intended to make part of the aid, a loan.
"Johnson said his commitment is to put it on the floor after Easter. And we are working on this bill," Senator McCaul said.