House Speaker Mike Johnson announced in a Wednesday press conference that the House would not approve any more aid to Ukraine in light of President Trump’s victory and upcoming inauguration.
This comes after a second threat against Johnson of an attempt to elect a new Speaker.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, some Freedom Caucus members believe Mike Johnson has been an “abysmal failure” and want to replace him.
Earlier this year, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tried to oust Johnson as Speaker with a Motion to Vacate following his repeated broken promises, especially regarding wasteful spending and foreign aid to Ukraine.
The attempted ouster came after Johnson led Republicans to give up a $1.2 trillion spending bill with more support from Democrats than Republicans, reauthorization for warrantless searches of Americans under FISA Section 702, and voted to send an additional $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to Ukraine, a move that President Trump expressly opposed. All of this furthered Biden’s agenda.
However, only 11 Congressmen voted for Greene’s Motion. 196 Republicans and 163 Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and current Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, voted to keep Mike Johnson as Speaker.
But it appears that Johnson may be taking steps in the right direction, and hopefully, it stays that way.
Johnson also recently showed that he does have a spine when he declared that “A man is a man, and a woman is a woman” before enacting Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) proposed rule prohibiting biological men from using women’s restrooms on Capitol Hill.
Johnson was asked Wednesday whether he would follow Biden’s request and attach an additional $24 billion to a continuing resolution, and he said he will “wait and take the new Commander in Chief’s direction on all of that.”
Watch below:
Johnson: There are developments by the hour in Ukraine, I think, as we predicted, and as I said to all of you weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected, it will change the dynamic of the Russia war on Ukraine, and we’re seeing that happen. So, it is not the place that Joe Biden to make that decision now. We have a newly elected president, and we’re going to wait and take the new Commander in Chief’s direction on all of that, so I don’t expect any Ukraine funding to come up now.
