For more than a month, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has put off a vote on funding for Ukraine’s war against Russia. It now appears, though, that the GOP stonewalling may finally come to an end once the House reconvenes from its Easter recess. “We’re going to do our job” and support Ukraine, he told an attendee at a closed-door luncheon fundraiser last month, according to The New York Times.
House conservatives were upset about this maneuver when it came to the spending deals, but doing it on a stand-alone funding bill for Ukraine would make them apoplectic. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has already filed a motion to vacate the chair, the process used to topple previous Speaker Kevin McCarthy, over those spending bills, and she can trigger it on a whim moving forward.