President Joe Biden has met with new House Speaker Mike Johnson at the White House
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, of Louisiana, meets with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries at the White House on Thursday to discuss his request for nearly $106 billion for Israel, Ukraine and other national security needs.Instead, Johnson said House Republicans would first bring a separate bill to provide $14.
“Enough of the chaos, enough of the dysfunction,” said Jeffries, D-N.Y., adding it was time for Congress to get back to business. Biden had called Johnson to congratulate him after his election Wednesday and said it was “time for all of us to act responsibly” to fund the government and provide that foreign aid. “We need to move swiftly,” the president said in a statement.
Democrats said Johnson, a lawyer specializing in constitutional issues, was an extreme conservative, a strict opponent of abortion access and an architect of Trump's legal effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election he lost to Democrat Biden.
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