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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Speaker Mike Johnson's Push for Ukraine Aid

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The House comes back to town facing a big decision on military assistance for Ukraine, as well as Israel and Taiwan. Will Joe Biden show the leadership needed to get funding over the finish line, and will Donald Trump intervene? Plus, Marjorie Taylor Greene intensifies her criticisms of Speaker Mike Johnson in a scathing letter to her colleagues calling for him to be replaced. 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.

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The House is back in Washington, with Speaker Mike Johnson apparently determined to pass an aid bill for Ukraine and other American allies around the world,

0:40.0

but with a motion to boot him from leadership also hanging over his head.

0:44.3

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:47.6

We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member,

0:51.1

Kate Batchelder O'Dellell and columnist Kim Strassal.

0:55.0

After what we trust was a relaxing and productive congressional recess.

0:59.6

The House is back in DC on Tuesday and the betting seems to be that some kind of Ukraine

1:04.7

package will probably get through the house somehow but will it be able to make

1:09.0

it through the rules committee and then pass with just a majority vote?

1:12.8

Will it have to be taken up on a suspension of the rules, which requires two-third

1:17.1

approval and what will the bill look like?

1:19.0

That all remains to be seen.

1:20.6

Meantime, the bill passed by the Senate, which includes about $60 billion for Ukraine,

1:25.6

is bottled up in the House, but 190 Democrats and one Republicans so far have signed a discharge petition,

1:32.4

and if that reaches a majority it could force a vote on that package.

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