Mike Johnson hints vote on Ukraine aid is up next despite threat to speakership

US House speaker, #Mike #Johnson, has raised expectations that a vote on #funding for #Ukraine could be imminent in the chamber, even at the risk of the Republican losing his leadership position.

Johnson touted “important #innovations” to a possible Ukraine package during an interview on Fox News’s Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy, and he suggested a vote on a standalone bill could come soon after Congress returns from Easter recess on 9 April.

The Louisiana Republican acknowledged forces in his party were trying to unseat him over his efforts to find a bipartisan solution to stalled US funding for Ukraine’s efforts to repel Russia’s military invasion, which began in February 2022.

The far-right extremist Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to remove Johnson in March, but she stopped short of calling it for a floor vote.

Ousted House speaker #McCarthy says Johnson shouldn’t fear losing job: ‘I don’t think they could do it again’

The #White #House, meanwhile, has warned that #delays are #costing Ukraine #lives and #territory because Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, “gains every day” Congress does not pass a funding measure.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/mike-johnson-ukraine-aid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The "Costs of War" project, based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates that the total death toll in post-9/11 wars – including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen – could be at least 4.5-4.7 million:
Stephanie Savell (2023) https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths

Blair is one of the Western leaders who shares complicity for this appalling death toll: https://mondediplo.com/2003/07/01ramonet

State lying has been thrown down the memory hole by media outlets who welcome him with open arms.

(to be continued)