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The House voted 366-58 on Saturday to approve $14.3 billion in additional U.S. aid to Israel, one of four bills legislators voted on to provide $95 billion aid to U.S. allies and related military and humanitarian programs. Thirty-seven Democrats and 21 Republicans, largely representing the far-left and -right flanks of the parties, opposed the Israel... Read More

In an unprecedented move, Speaker Mike Johnson worked with House Democrats to force Ukraine border defense funds toward a full House vote on Saturday.

Speaker Mike Johnson celebrated Democrats seizing the House by unprecedentedly relying on the opposition party to forward Ukraine funding.

On 18 April, Democrats in the House of Representatives departed from the usual political norms in the USA to save a foreign aid package, including for Ukraine, proposed by House Speaker Mike Johnson. Source: European Pravda, citing Axios Details: The publication notes this proves that the fractured and tiny majority of the Republican Party in the House has effectively shifted to something resembling a bipartisan coalition.

The Biden administration, on Friday, formally endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) scheme to fund Ukraine's border defense.

House Democrats took an “unprecedented” step to secure GOP Speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, the American news website Axios reported on April 19.

 

The globe. now, theres a complicating factor here, and that is the fact that some republicans are urging speaker mike johnson to change the threshold for the motion to vacate. that is the ability of one person to oust or at least call for a vote to oust the speaker at any time some republicans say that that rule should be changed as part of this package with the supplemental that becomes a more complicated question though, as to whether democrats would help with that. heres what one of those dem...

As the Democrat prepares to retire from the House after nearly three decades, he will pass the Bike Caucus baton.

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju, Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN