The US House Speaker’s personal dilemma likely explains months of delay that undoubtedly cost Ukrainian lives and has helped Russia make battlefield gains.
“My philosophy,” Mike Johnson said before introducing a $US61 billion Ukraine aid package to the US House of Representatives, “is do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may”.Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.The bill has passed, the chips have fallen, and Johnson may not be in that job for much longer.
Johnson knew Saturday’s vote would anger the America First wing of the Republican Party where he made his political home and which installed him as speaker in the first place.“He was torn between trying to save his job and the right thing,” Michael McCaul, the House foreign affairs chairman, told CNN. “He prayed over it.”Advertisement
He stuck to that decision even after Volodymyr Zelensky personally explained the desperation of the situation at a meeting in Washington in December.
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