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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Bipartisan Majorities Show Support for Beleaguered U.S. Allies

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

House Speaker Mike Johnson put his job on the line in seeking floor votes on bills to provide weapons for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. It paid off in victory, as bipartisan majorities united to pass the bills and defeat a rump group of GOP opponents. Will the same coalition be willing and able to save Mr. Johnson from a motion to vacate the Speaker's chair? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:38.0

The House of Representatives breaks the log jam on aid to America's allies on the weekend and passes separate bills

0:45.8

to help Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine with large bipartisan majorities.

0:52.0

The Senate is expected to pass the House

0:55.2

legislation on Tuesday and President Biden will sign it. What have we learned

0:59.6

about the debate over the aid bills and will speaker Mike Johnson lose his job because of it.

1:05.8

Welcome on Poll as you go with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages here on our Potomac Watch

1:09.8

podcast and I'm here with my colleagues Kim Strassal and Kate Batchelder O'Dell who have been following the long saga which is finally over and it reminds me the old line often attributed to Winston Churchill but perhaps probably apocryphal that you can count

1:24.9

on the Americans to do the right thing after they've exhausted all of the other alternatives.

1:30.3

But this strikes me as important a vote, given where we are in the world as Lend Lease was,

1:36.5

to aid to Britain under President FDR, when Hitler was on the march in Europe.

1:42.1

The real question was, would the U.S. abandon its allies?

1:45.6

And credit to Mike Johnson, the speaker who risked his speakership to push the bills to the floor,

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