The Daily Mail is reporting that Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is moving ahead with plans to hold a separate vote to address just the issue of military aid to Ukraine and Israel, apparently dropping the issue of increased border security on the U.S.'s southern border. As you probably know, House Republicans had been refusing to vote for aid to Ukraine and Israel absent some deal to secure the southern border--something vehemently opposed by Democrats and RINOs. And as we saw, Biden, the Democrats, and the RINOs indicted through their actions that they would rather see Ukraine fall to Russia than do anything to reduce the flow of illegals across the southern border. Johnson is now set to completely destroy the leverage that Republicans had to obtain concessions from the Democrats over border security.
According to the article, Johnson's excuse is his fear of Putin taking Europe:
'No one wants Vladimir Putin to prevail,' he went on. 'I'm of the opinion that he wouldn't stop in Ukraine. If he was allowed, he would go all the way through Europe.'
That is ludicrous. Putin couldn't even take Ukraine before the U.S. and Europe busied themselves with providing military assistance and while Russia still had most of their modern tanks and other vehicles. Where does Johnson think that Putin is suddenly going to get back the equipment and manpower? From the magic military logistics genie?
Johnson is a fool to throw away our strongest leverage over the Democrats to get some real border security bill passed.
And even if fear of Putin was a valid excuse, why does the planned vote include assistance to Israel? Putin isn't invading Israel. I fear that AIPAC is behind this particular aspect of the deal.
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