“America must never accept any of these results”, asserted Joe Biden.
– Motion of censure –
Ukraine is desperately short of ammunition in its war against Russia and the American credits are exhausted.
Israel, for its part, faced a direct and unprecedented attack from Iran on the night of Saturday to Sunday, in a context of high regional tensions.
< p>A package of $60 billion in military and economic assistance for Ukraine was adopted in the Senate in February. But Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to consider the text — due, among other things, to a dispute over the issue of immigration.
If it is adopted by the Republican-majority House, the batch of texts unveiled on Wednesday will then be studied by the Democratic-majority Senate, before possibly arriving on Joe Biden's desk for promulgation.
Mike Johnson's announcement was rejected by some of his Republican colleagues, reviving the possibility of a censure motion and a new crisis in the House.
His predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, was impeached last year after a rebellion by the Trumpist wing of his party.
< p>Mike Johnson plunged the Republican Party “into chaos by serving the Democrats and adopting Biden's agenda”, criticized elected official Marjorie Taylor Greene on X.
“Now he's going to finance wars abroad,” she added. He “must announce a date for his resignation and allow Republicans to elect a new one to put America first and pass a Republican agenda.”
The “speaker” ruled out any voluntary departure.
“I will not resign”, Mike Johnson told the press, deeming the threat of filing “absurd” 'a motion of censure.
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116