Mike Johnson’s effort to advance funding for Ukraine and Israel could trigger far-right attempt to oust him from speaker role
The Republican infighting that has both stalled and overshadowed efforts to pass funding packages for Israel and Ukraine is still raging today, as speaker Mike Johnson clings to his job in the face of a growing rightwing rebellion.
So far, there’s no sign of a formal plan for the urgently needed aid as Johnson mulls his best approach. Kentucky extremist Thomas Massie on Tuesday gave his support to a threat by Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene to invoke a “motion to vacate” if Johnson follows through with a plan to tie tens of millions of dollars in funding for Ukraine to money for Israel and Taiwan.