Mike Johnson Signals He’ll Torpedo Senate’s Foreign Aid Package

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) issued a preemptive warning on Monday that the Republican-controlled chamber was unlikely to take up the Senate’s $95 billion foreign aid package, sharply criticizing the proposed legislation’s failure to address the border crisis—“the most critical aspect of our national security,” as a statement from his office characterized it.

“In the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters,” Johnson said in the statement. “America deserves better than the Senate’s status quo.”

Johnson’s statement was issued minutes before the package—which will aid Israel, Ukraine, and other U.S. allies—was set to go before the Senate for a vote. Final passage in the upper chamber is expected by Wednesday at the latest, but the speaker’s statement all but precludes its passage in the House.

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