House speaker Mike Johnson fends off criticism and claims history will judge the funding decision well
View from Capitol Hill: Bitterly divided parties conspire to pass foreign aid Bill but discord sizzles unabatedUS Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: 'I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed. I think he might go to the Baltics next.' Photograph: Jim Lo ScalzoA rare sound: cheering from the House of Representative on Capitol Hill.
The success completed a remarkable personal change of political and moral conviction for Johnson, who has made the move from objecting to the foreign aid Bill to becoming the architect of its safe passage. When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signalled his disapproval of the Senate bipartisan Bill, Johnson had described it, in late January, as “dead in the water.
The main reason for Johnson’s conversion was, he explained, simple. He listened to those who knew what was happening on the ground on Ukraine.“I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed. I think he might go to the Baltics next. I think he might have a showdown with Poland or one of our Nato allies.”
By Sunday morning, Johnson could bask in the bipartisan acclaim emanating from the raft of weekend political review shows on television. Texas congressman Tony Gonzales predicted Johnson will survive before lunching an astonishing televised attack on some of his colleagues, who he termed as “real scumbags”.
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