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...Yet by February of this year, it was Biden himself who applied pressure, summoning Johnson to the Oval Office and urging him to stop stalling over a funding bill for Kyiv and Israel that had passed the Senate...
...But a draft bill has not been circulated, and this week Johnson declined a meeting with UK foreign minister David Cameron, who flew in to pressure him on the issue....
...He said that he had briefed Johnson on the situation on the battlefield, in particular Russia’s intensifying air attacks....
...It suggests Johnson will need to rely on Democrats again on Saturday to pass the bill, given the tiny majority Republicans hold in the 435-seat House....
...Johnson, a close ally of Donald Trump, has risked his leadership by pushing the foreign aid bills in the face of opposition from hardline members of his own party who oppose providing aid to Kyiv in particular...
...Saturday’s vote ends months of inaction in the House, where Johnson refused to take up a different $95bn national security supplemental aid bill that passed the Senate in February....
...On Monday Johnson proposed to replace a $95bn Senate-approved bill offering more aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with four separate bills, which would also include new sanctions on Iran....
...aid bill....
...The agreement was welcomed by President Joe Biden, who signed the bill on Saturday....
...The Trump loyalists had vowed to oust Mike Johnson, Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, if he allowed a vote on the bill....
...On Friday, Johnson travelled to Mar-a-Lago to see Trump, who later told reporters he was “looking at” a Ukraine aid bill. Trump did not immediately comment on Johnson’s latest proposal on Monday....
...Boris Johnson’s Downing Street shake-up needs to succeed — and fast Boris Johnson recasts UK government with big cabinet shake-up Matt Hancock resigns as UK health secretary The UK Prime Minister and...
...In a move that helped fast-track the measure, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson bundled it with funding for Ukraine, creating a package that most senators would be very unlikely to oppose....
...The toughest hurdle for the bill was cleared on Saturday after Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, decided to bring Ukraine aid up for a vote despite months of internal...
...Johnson also said a fourth bill, which includes a provision to seize Russian assets and additional sanctions on Russia, China and Iran, would be considered, along with a separate bill intended to boost security...
...Johnson’s plan, unveiled on Monday, splits the aid into three separate bills, including a $60.8bn Ukraine aid bill, a $26.4bn measure in support of Israel, and an $8.1bn package to send aid to Taiwan and...
...the bill....
...But Johnson, an ally of former President Donald Trump, has so far refused to bring the bill to a vote in the House....
...“I’m very happy that Speaker Johnson and House leaders incorporated my recommendation to extend the ByteDance divestment period from six months to a year,” Cantwell said....
...“The notion that TBIL was not taken blows my mind,” Morris added of the ticker symbol he bagged for his three-month Treasury bill ETF in 2022....
...For months, House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to put the Senate bill up for a vote in the face of opposition from Trump, the party’s presumed presidential nominee....
...The House also passed a bill authorising Biden to seize $6bn of Russia’s frozen reserves for Ukraine. Most of the rest of Russia’s $300bn in foreign assets is in Europe. The Kremlin was not happy....
...The Republican Speaker said the House would vote on separate funding bills — for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan — and another bill that includes measures to confront China, Russia and Iran....
...Johnson has said he will consider a “supplemental” funding bill to deal with the extra foreign aid for Israel, as well as money for Taiwan and increasing security on the US-Mexico border, in the coming weeks...
...Johnson’s backing and the unanimous vote suggest that the bill will have little trouble passing the House....
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