House speaker to make public appearance with ex-president as Trump insiders reportedly irked by ‘unwanted’ ouster effort from Marjorie Taylor Greene
Allies of Mike Johnson have reached out to Donald Trump to ask him to publicly support the speaker, sources told CNN. Johnson has also been advised to keep the former president in the loop on a vote on funding for Ukraine could be imminent in the chamber, it writes.
The specter of Trump has loomed large over the wrangling for a Ukraine deal; he was instrumental in Johnson’s refusal to call a House vote on a $95bn wartime funding bill that passed the Democratic-led Senate in February, which also included aid for Israel in its war in Gaza.
Johnson gets to stand onstage with the King of MAGA himself right as he faces a hard-right revolt, while Trump gets the country’s highest-ranking Republican to lend credence to his voting concerns as many in the GOP beg him to move past the 2020 election.