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Is Upheaval In House Coming After Passage of $60 Billion for Ukraine?

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The House passed a four-bill $95 billion foreign aid package over the weekend that includes $60 billion in additional aid for Ukraine. The bill could cost House Speaker Mike Johnson his job.  The aid package passed in a 311-112 vote with the unanimous support of Democrats and 101 Republicans voting in favor of the bill. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., threatened to introduce a motion to remove Johnson, R-La., from his position as speaker if he brought the funding for Ukraine to the House floor for a vote.  “I think she's looking at the totality of what's come across the floor over the past few months, and she is expressing extreme disappointment with that,” Ryan Walker, executive vice president of Heritage Action for America, says of Greene. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation, of which Heritage Action is the grassroots arm.) Greene left Washington at the end of last week without introducing the motion to vacate the speaker but said during an interview Sunday on Fox News that she still planned to try to oust Johnson.  “Mike Johnson’s speakership is over,” Greene said on “Sunday Morning Futures,” adding, “He needs to do the right thing—to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated.”  Less than one year after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the role, Capitol Hill is bracing for the potential of another speakership battle when Congress returns to Washington next week.  Walker joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain the reason for the sharp divide in Congress over the foreign aid package and the likelihood Johnson will face removal as speaker. Walker also explains where Congress is getting the money to send to Ukraine.  Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, April 23rd. I'm Virginia Allen.

0:11.0

The House passed a four-bill $95 billion foreign aid package over the weekend.

0:18.0

Within the bill is $60 billion in additional funding for Ukraine.

0:25.0

Well, initially we had seen opposition from House Speaker Mike Johnson back in 2022

0:31.4

to funding for Ukraine, but Speaker Mike Johnson did bring this new bill to the floor

0:37.2

of the House for a vote and voted in support of it.

0:40.4

Joining us today to explain the change and what exactly is happening in Congress and where

0:45.9

this money is coming from for Ukraine is Ryan Walker the Executive Vice President of Heritage

0:52.4

Action for America.

0:54.0

Ryan also discusses efforts from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia

0:59.2

to remove Mike Johnson from the position of speaker.

1:03.0

Stay with us for that conversation up next.

1:06.0

As conservatives, sometimes it feels like we're constantly on defense against bad ideas.

1:11.0

Bad philosophy, revisionist history, junk science, and

1:15.6

divisive politics. But here's something I've come to understand. When faced with bad

1:20.1

ideas, it's not enough to just defend.

1:23.1

If we want to save this country, then it's time to go on offense.

1:27.6

Conservative principles are ideas that work.

1:30.1

Individual responsibility, strong local communities, and belief in the American dream.

1:35.2

As a former college professor and current president of the Heritage Foundation,

1:39.0

my life's mission is to learn, educate, and take action.

1:42.9

My podcast, The Kevin Roberts Show, is my opportunity

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