Government funding, Ukraine funding, aid to Israel, and a complete lack of accomplishments—Speaker Mike Johnson hasn’t solved any of it. And Republicans are noticing it.

After Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, Republicans and Democrats in Congress both said they needed to act quickly to help Israel.

At the time, the House was floundering without a speaker, and members cited the necessity of sending immediate aid to a close U.S. ally as a motivating reason for solving the speaker drama.

But five weeks after Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected speaker, and nearly eight weeks since the attack, Congress doesn’t appear any closer to passing an aid package—for Israel or for Ukraine, the latter of which has been “weeks” away from running out of weapons for months now.

As Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) told The Daily Beast this week, Ukraine needed an aid package in October.

  • @vitamin@infosec.pub
    31•7 months ago

    It’s because republicans don’t stand for anything. They can’t pass any bills because that would require that they actually have policy goals. They don’t. All they want to do is embarrass and attack their political rivals. The republican party is profoundly broken.