The Ugly Truth Behind Mike Johnson’s MAGA-fied Blockade on Ukraine Aid
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
The New Republic
4.4 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 2:04.6 | Is there a pro-Pooten wing of the Republican Party? How badly split is the GOP over continuing |
| 2:11.1 | U.S. military aid to Ukraine? These questions arise because on Tuesday, in a decisive 70-29 vote, the Senate passed a mammoth supplemental containing $60 billion for Ukraine's self-defense against Russian aggression, as well as $14 billion for Israel. |
| 2:30.7 | House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing that the House won't vote on the measure, in part because |
| 2:35.2 | MAGA hardliners who want to end aid to Ukraine are threatening Armageddon if he does. |
| 2:41.2 | Democrats and some House Republicans who support Ukraine aid are trying to find a way around |
| 2:45.9 | that opposition. |
| 2:47.6 | Today we're joined by Democratic Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado, who has been in the middle of |
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