Chuck Darwin<p>Mike Johnson hints vote on Ukraine aid is up next despite threat to speakership</p><p>US House speaker, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mike</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Johnson</span></a>, has raised expectations that a vote on <a href="https://c.im/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>funding</span></a> for <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> could be imminent in the chamber, even at the risk of the Republican losing his leadership position.</p><p>Johnson touted “important <a href="https://c.im/tags/innovations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>innovations</span></a>” to a possible Ukraine package during an interview on Fox News’s Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy, and he suggested a vote on a standalone bill could come soon after Congress returns from Easter recess on 9 April.</p><p>The Louisiana Republican acknowledged forces in his party were trying to unseat him over his efforts to find a bipartisan solution to stalled US funding for Ukraine’s efforts to repel Russia’s military invasion, which began in February 2022. </p><p>The far-right extremist Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to remove Johnson in March, but she stopped short of calling it for a floor vote.</p><p>Ousted House speaker <a href="https://c.im/tags/McCarthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>McCarthy</span></a> says Johnson shouldn’t fear losing job: ‘I don’t think they could do it again’</p><p>The <a href="https://c.im/tags/White" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>White</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>House</span></a>, meanwhile, has warned that <a href="https://c.im/tags/delays" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>delays</span></a> are <a href="https://c.im/tags/costing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>costing</span></a> Ukraine <a href="https://c.im/tags/lives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lives</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/territory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>territory</span></a> because Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, “gains every day” Congress does not pass a funding measure.<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/mike-johnson-ukraine-aid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/01/mike-johnson-ukraine-aid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>