For israel. Another includes 8 Billion in national Security Assistance for taiwan and the indo pacific region. The last bill involves an effort to ban tiktok in the united states within a year if the app does not divest from its chinabased owner. The quartet of bills will automatically be packaged together and sent to the senate, which Majority Leader Chuck schumer announced today will begin voting on tuesday to approve the measure. Now, lets be clear that drama In The House is far from over. With a razor thin republican majority, speaker Mike Johnson was forced to rely on democratic votes to pass these aid bills, just as he has had to rely on democratic votes to do basic governing like keeping the government from shutting down last month. And, his majority just got even smaller with republican congressman Mike Gallagher set to retire after voting today
Mike johnson was forced to rely on democratic votes to pass these aid bills, just as he has had to rely on democratic votes to do basic governing, like keep the government from shutting down last month. and his majority just got smaller with mike gallagher set to officially retire after voting today. that means speaker johnson can only afford to lose one republican vote, one vote until a special election next month replace the former speaker, kevin mccarthy, who left congress at the end of last year. this dynamic could spell real trouble for speaker johnson, especially since a trio of far right members of the conference are threatening to oust him in retaliation for bringing a boat on ukraine aid. the congressman are now cosponsors of a motion to vacate against johnson, filed by the thorny champion of chaos,