She will explain what we are looking at on the screen. thank you for joining us. what is the latest with the votes at this point? right now, they started the first of what appears to be several of amendment votes. you saw the first vote fail as expected. that had to do with border security. it needed two-thirds of the house majority to pass because even republicans, members of speaker johnson s party voted against it in the rules committee. so that s why you saw what played out on the screen. eventually in the next couple of minutes, they will move to the critical three foreign security bills, foreign aid bills that will provide aid to ukraine, $60 billion more to israel, 26 billion in fact and 9 billion dpr humanitarian aid to help civilians in gaza. that was a red line for democrats. many demanded it to move on to this point and get here. the fourth bill that is interesting and has nothing to do with the foreign aid bills is
A bill concerning the social media app tiktok. this would basically give the chinese parent company byte dance one year to sell or the app would be banned in the u.s.. this is important for republicans and also democrats. we do anticipate that in the senate, they will take this up as one full package, the foreign aid plus the tiktok component and pass all of this by mid week next week. they are working out an agreement and i m keeping an eye on the other chamber too. the overarching question is what happens to speaker johnson s job. we heard from three hard liners who are putting together an effort to force him to resign. i just asked steve scalise who is the republican majority leader, walking behind congresswoman cherelle as you were talking to her if he expects a motion to vacate to be put on the floor today and he said no but only marjorie taylor greene knows what she will do. and the expectation of the
Politics here. speaker johnson put his job on line to bring the measures but he couldn t have done it without democrat support. so did the democrats have to make concessions to get the speaker to advance the foreign aid bills? you know, i think the need for the republican conference to have democratic votes in the rules committee comes from the poor decisions that kevin mccarthy made as he was advancing his own self interest and doing whatever it took for his very short tenure as speaker. he put people on the rules committee who were not serious people. people who didn t want to govern but wanted to campaign. i think when it came to hakeem jeffries, i think it is an understanding in the democratic caucus that these are critically important, critically historic times for our nation in the world and we need to act in the best interest of the american public. let me ask you quickly. will you vote to save speaker s
Speaker johnson his job. i want you tolisten to what jim cliburn had to say about this this morning when it comes to how the ukraine piece of this was structured watch. i particularly don t like the fact that we are treating a significant portion of the money to ukraine as a loan. all by it forgivable. i think we need to stand up for our allies. what clyburn is referring to is some of the money in the form of a loan. this is something that republicans, led by former president trump had advocated for. there is a big catch in that loan. the president , no matter who it is, can forgive 50% of that loan come november 15, 100% of it come january 1st2026 with