How Johnson, Who Put His Job at Risk to Save Ukraine Aid, Flipped for Trump
Many Republicans have made a reversal on Russia and Ukraine, falling in line behind President Trump. No turnabout has been more striking than that of the Republican speaker.
It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
Many Republicans have made a reversal on Russia and Ukraine, falling in line behind President Trump. No turnabout has been more striking than that of the Republican speaker.
The Biden administration saw the $67 billion in military assistance it provided to Kyiv as essential. Trump sees any further aid as leverage.
The Louisiana Republican has made himself subservient to President Trump, whose help he needs to manage his fractious, unpredictable and tiny majority.
The math of the G.O.P.’s goals makes the move almost unavoidable.
Speaker Mike Johnson pressed ahead with plans for a Tuesday night vote on the House G.O.P. budget resolution even as threatened defections piled up.
The congresswoman from New York is in line to be confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. But first, her colleagues need her vote to pass their embattled budget plan.
Mr. Trump’s call for “one big beautiful bill” came just hours after he gave conflicting directions to congressional Republicans on cuts to social safety net programs.
The math doesn’t seem to work with the House budget proposal, and the president’s record shows a consistent openness to Medicaid cuts.
In positioning himself as a junior partner to the president and doing his bidding on matters large and small, the Louisiana Republican is diminishing a job that involves leading a coequal branch of government.
Speaker Mike Johnson said the panel would counter “false narratives” about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and what led up to it, a sign that the G.O.P. would continue to try shift blame for the attack.