Mike Johnson has his "come to Orwell" moment.

[berg80]

A buzz saw of Republican opposition in the House is threatening to kill the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel that the Senate overwhelmingly passed early Tuesday, leaving proponents of the emergency aid legislation scrounging for unorthodox ways to push the bill over the finish line.

Hours before the Senate approved the bill in a lopsided 70-to-29 vote, Speaker Mike Johnson suggested he would not allow the aid package to receive a vote on the House floor. The measure would provide an additional $60.1 billion for Kyiv — which would bring the total U.S. investment in the war effort to more than $170 billion — as well as $14.1 billion for Israel’s war against Hamas and almost $10 billion for humanitarian aid for civilians in conflict zones, including Palestinians in Gaza.

“House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at our own border,” Mr. Johnson said in a statement on Monday night, adding: “In the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters.”

Ukraine Aid Bill Faces Hurdles in the House Amid G.O.P. Opposition

Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated he won’t put the Senate legislation to a vote in the House, leaving proponents scrambling to find a path to passage.

www.nytimes.com

Mike didn't want to consider the immigration reform bill that included aid to Israel and Ukraine because it addressed many of the concerns raised by Repubs regarding the border.......so Trump killed it. Now he doesn't want to consider aid to Israel and Ukraine because it doesn't include border security provisions. Is it me or is he a little hard to please?

 

[Oddball]

Fuck Ukraine, and fuck Tenpercentskyy.

And while I'm up, fuck your shitlib lies about how great that "border bill" was....It was a total sellout ruse, in order to get the Ukraine loot stuffed in underneath.

 

[Meister]

Be honest, the first immigration Bill that was killed, really didn't address the border ISSUE.
Stop illegal immigration....not just hamper it a bit.

 

[Rawley]

Is it me or is he a little hard to please?

It's you. House Repubs' message is crystal clear, Fix our border first before you send tens of billions of dollars to foreign countries to fix their borders. It ain't rocket science.

 

[pknopp]

If it's that important to do, pay for it.

 

[berg80]

Be honest, the first immigration Bill that was killed, really didn't address the border ISSUE.
Stop illegal immigration....not just hamper it a bit.

Be honest, if that is the standard for passing immigration reform a bill will never be passed. The fact is, after Repubs squeezed many concessions out of Dems Trump killed the bill to deny Biden a bipartisan legislative victory on the border going in to the election.

 

[Oddball]

Be honest,....

As though you'd know what honesty is.

 

[White 6]

A buzz saw of Republican opposition in the House is threatening to kill the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel that the Senate overwhelmingly passed early Tuesday, leaving proponents of the emergency aid legislation scrounging for unorthodox ways to push the bill over the finish line.

Hours before the Senate approved the bill in a lopsided 70-to-29 vote, Speaker Mike Johnson suggested he would not allow the aid package to receive a vote on the House floor. The measure would provide an additional $60.1 billion for Kyiv — which would bring the total U.S. investment in the war effort to more than $170 billion — as well as $14.1 billion for Israel’s war against Hamas and almost $10 billion for humanitarian aid for civilians in conflict zones, including Palestinians in Gaza.

“House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at our own border,” Mr. Johnson said in a statement on Monday night, adding: “In the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters.”

Ukraine Aid Bill Faces Hurdles in the House Amid G.O.P. Opposition

Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated he won’t put the Senate legislation to a vote in the House, leaving proponents scrambling to find a path to passage.

www.nytimes.com

Mike didn't want to consider the immigration reform bill that included aid to Israel and Ukraine because it addressed many of the concerns raised by Repubs regarding the border.......so Trump killed it. Now he doesn't want to consider aid to Israel and Ukraine because it doesn't include border security provisions. Is it me or is he a little hard to please?

Mike is a dick. They should fund Ukraine and Israel. Republicans just don't care about anything but thier political interests, certainly not the country, the free world or allies.

 

[Jim H - VA USA]

A buzz saw of Republican opposition in the House is threatening to kill the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel that the Senate overwhelmingly passed early Tuesday, leaving proponents of the emergency aid legislation scrounging for unorthodox ways to push the bill over the finish line.

Hours before the Senate approved the bill in a lopsided 70-to-29 vote, Speaker Mike Johnson suggested he would not allow the aid package to receive a vote on the House floor. The measure would provide an additional $60.1 billion for Kyiv — which would bring the total U.S. investment in the war effort to more than $170 billion — as well as $14.1 billion for Israel’s war against Hamas and almost $10 billion for humanitarian aid for civilians in conflict zones, including Palestinians in Gaza.

“House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at our own border,” Mr. Johnson said in a statement on Monday night, adding: “In the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters.”

Ukraine Aid Bill Faces Hurdles in the House Amid G.O.P. Opposition

Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated he won’t put the Senate legislation to a vote in the House, leaving proponents scrambling to find a path to passage.

www.nytimes.com

Mike didn't want to consider the immigration reform bill that included aid to Israel and Ukraine because it addressed many of the concerns raised by Repubs regarding the border.......so Trump killed it. Now he doesn't want to consider aid to Israel and Ukraine because it doesn't include border security provisions. Is it me or is he a little hard to please?

He says he has no plans to bring it to the floor...

Johnson says he will NOT put $95B Ukraine and Israel bill on floor

Johnson said he will not be putting the Senate 's national security aid bill on the House floor, hours after the Senate spent all night pushing the bill through its chamber.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Thank goodness. $61B for Ukraine, and $9B for Hamas.

 

[berg80]

It's you. House Repubs' message is crystal clear, Fix our border first before you send tens of billions of dollars to foreign countries to fix their borders. It ain't rocket science.

Senate Repubs touted the bill for a reason. It represented real progress in addressing the border. The "it wasn't good enough" meme is easy to hide behind, masking the real reason Johnson refused to consider it or send a House version back to the Senate. Trump didn't want it to pass. Case closed.

 

[berg80]

Divided government means neither party gets everything they want. Senate Repubs recognized the bill made real progress. That isn't what Trump wants.

 

[Meister]

Be honest, if that is the standard for passing immigration reform a bill will never be passed. The fact is, after Repubs squeezed many concessions out of Dems Trump killed the bill to deny Biden a bipartisan legislative victory on the border going in to the election.

What concessions are you talking about? Like the 8,000 illegals entering a day before they supposedly close the border temporarily?

What concessions are you talking about? Like if there was any legal litigation, it had to go through the Washington DC Court of Appeals?
Come on, MAN!

 

[Meister]

Trump didn't want it to pass. Case closed.

For good cause

 

[Rawley]

Senate Repubs touted the bill for a reason.

Aside from Lankford, which Senate Repubs that had actually seen it were "touting the bill?"

It represented real progress in addressing the border. The "it wasn't good enough" meme is easy to hide behind, masking the real reason Johnson refused to consider it or send a House version back to the Senate. Trump didn't want it to pass. Case closed.

House Repubs sent Schumer HR2 eight months ago. Rather than come back with a counter, Schumer told the House to go fuck themselves.

You're just embarrassing yourself by parroting Biden's ridiculous TRUMP! bullshit.

 

[Meister]

Divided government means neither party gets everything they want. Senate Repubs recognized the bill made real progress. That isn't what Trump wants.

The dems would have got everything they wanted, and with a watered down immigration Bill that did nothing

 

[Meister]

Mike is a dick. They should fund Ukraine and Israel. Republicans just don't care about anything but thier political interests, certainly not the country, the free world or allies.

And Schumer and Biden has the American people's best interests at heart? Absolutly not, 86% of Americans
have a serious issue with the immigration issue, 86%! Yet the dems are playing games with it.

 

[berg80]

And Schumer and Biden has the American people's best interests at heart? Absolutly not, 86% of Americans
have a serious issue with the immigration issue, 86%! Yet the dems are playing games with it.

They aren't playing games with it. After much consternation Dems realized a different approach was called for. So they offered to compromise with Repubs, agreeing to the most conservative border bill in decades.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just before the Senate voted Wednesday to kill the border deal he spent the last four months negotiating, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford climbed a set of marble stairs outside the chamber and joined his wife in the visitors’ gallery.

As the Republican quietly watched from a floor above, briefly the outsider after defending his legislation in a last Senate floor speech, fellow negotiator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona was down on the floor excoriating the Republicans who had abandoned Lankford, one by one, after insisting on a border deal and asking him to negotiate a compromise on one of the country’s most intractable issues.

“Less than 24 hours after we released the bill, my Republican colleagues changed their minds,” said Sinema, a former Democrat turned Independent. “Turns out they want all talk and no action. It turns out border security is not a risk to our national security. It’s just a talking point for the election.”

Abandoned by his colleagues after negotiating a border compromise, GOP senator faces backlash alone

A former youth minister in the Baptist church, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford is known as one of the most sincere and well-liked members of the Senate.

apnews.com

 

[berg80]

The dems would have got everything they wanted, and with a watered down immigration Bill that did nothing

That's just blatantly, factually incorrect.

 

[White 6]

For good cause

Just the dysfunctional party of NO, saying NO, to make sure their own people don't pass anything for the good of the country over politics, another example of the guys that can't take yes for an answer. The only action that bunch is capable of is swapping out Speakers, they look totally dysfunctional at that also. I do not see them controlling either house or the presidency after November. A shame. They used to be a good party of common sense.

 

[Rawley]

They aren't playing games with it. After much consternation Dems realized a different approach was called for. So they offered to compromise with Repubs, agreeing to the most conservative border bill in decades.

Bullshit. HR2 was the most comprehensive immigration bill, ever.