For the second time in seven months, a fringe of the razor-thin House majority is threatening to suicide-bomb the Republican speakership over regular order of spending bills. This time, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing friendly fire for pushing forward foreign aid bills to our allies in Israel, the Indo-Pacific, and Ukraine. It is the $61 billion in aid to the latter that has incensed at least two House Republicans, who, under current House rules, could unilaterally propose a motion to vacate and blow up the party’s control of the lower congressional chamber.
Reasonable Republicans can disagree over the amount of aid we send to any of our allies, the structure of said aid packages, and their conditions, and beyond the principle of supporting fellow
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