Mike Johnson’s quandary on Israel and Ukraine funding illustrates one thing: The House’s right wing is still in the driver’s seat.
As the new Speaker of the House ignores calls from his Senate colleague Mitch McConnell and pushes forward with a plan to separate military funding for Ukraine and Israel into different aid packages — presumably to allow conservatives to vote against the former — it is increasingly clear that for lack of a better option, Mr Johnson is playing from the appeasement playbook authored by his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy.
