Speaker Mike Johnson laid out a plan Monday to consider three separate bills that would provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific region plus a fourth measure dealing with a mishmash of both GOP and bipartisan policy priorities in answer to a $95.3 billion Senate-passed supplemental package.
Republicans largely praised the plan to consider the four bills separately, but criticism from the party’s right flank leaves it unclear whether the Louisiana Republican can muster the votes within his party needed to adopt a rule on the floor to provide for consideration of the four bills.
“It really was the will of my colleagues to vote on these measures independently and not have them all sandwiched together as the Senate had done,” Johnson said leaving a House Republican meeting Monday evening. Unlike the Senate measure, the House version would structure aid to Ukraine as a loan, Johnson said.
