El Portavoz Johnson se enfrenta a dificultades por los proyectos de ley de ayuda exterior
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The House of Representatives is voting on whether to proceed with Speaker Mike Johnson’s $95 billion foreign aid proposal on Friday after it cleared its first key procedural hurdle with Democratic help.
The Friday morning vote is a test vote of sorts for the four foreign aid bills, known as a "rule vote." If successful it will allow lawmakers to debate each of the individual four bills and vote on their final passage on Saturday.
Three of the four bills fund Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific. A fourth bill includes national security priorities like the House’s recently passed crackdown on TikTok’s ownership as well as the REPO Act, which would liquidate seized Russian assets and give that funding to Ukraine.
Democrats had to help bail the GOP-led proposals on Thursday night in the face of conservative opposition. The Rules Committee, the final barrier before legislation traditionally gets a House-wide vote, spent all day considering the bills before advancing their "rules" package in a 9-3 vote.
Speaker Mike Johnson is holding a test vote on his foreign aid proposal Friday. (Getty Images)
It’s highly unusual for Democrats, or any opposition party, to cross the aisle on a Rules Committee vote as well as a House-wide rule vote. But it underscores the urgency that lawmakers on both sides feel about sending aid to foreign allies.
The three conservatives on the panel — Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ralph Norman, R-S.C. — all voted against the measure; an equally unusual move that’s become common in the 118th Congress, where members of the House Freedom Caucus and their allies have wielded outsized influence in Republicans’ thin majority by blocking procedural hurdles such as this. Democrats’ support will be critical for the rule vote and potentially even final passage of the bills.
Johnson has faced furious pushback from the right flank of his conference over most of his plan, particularly sending $60 billion to Ukraine, which has become a politically fraught topic for much of the GOP.
Esos mismos halcones de la ayuda exterior se han opuesto a que parte de la financiación de Israel se destine a la ayuda humanitaria en Gaza, aunque su inclusión fue fundamental para obtener el apoyo demócrata. Sin embargo, en una victoria para los republicanos, impide que parte de la financiación Israel-Gaza se destine a la Agencia de Obras Públicas y Socorro de las Naciones Unidas (UNRWA), una agencia de refugiados palestinos supuestamente vinculada a Hamás.
Rep. Chip Roy is among the Republicans who voted against the proposals in committee.
Los rebeldes conservadores también censuraron la decisión de los líderes republicanos de la Cámara de combinar los cuatro proyectos de ley en uno solo antes de enviarlo al Senado, argumentando que equivalía al mismo paquete de ayuda exterior de 95.000 millones de dólares que la cámara de mayoría demócrata aprobó a principios de año y al que se oponen los republicanos de la Cámara. Johnson ha argumentado que empaquetarlos juntos para el Senado evitaría que descuidaran el proyecto de ley sobre Israel en un momento en que este asunto ha dividido al Partido Demócrata.
Earlier this week, Massie threatened he’d move to oust Johnson from the speakership if he did not step aside after having the House vote on his foreign aid plans. One GOP lawmaker who was present at the closed-door meeting where it happened told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that Johnson challenged him to do so.
Massie is now signed onto Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to vacate resolution, which, if deemed "privileged" by Greene, would force the House to begin voting on Johnson’s potential ouster within two legislative days.
Meanwhile, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie are threatening to oust Johnson over the plan. (Getty Images)
Some discussion over whether to raise the threshold needed to call a motion to vacate — currently just one member can call for it — ended with Johnson backing off of the controversial move after it enraged GOP rebels and spurred new ouster threats.
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Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., suggested to reporters earlier that a wide swath of rank-and-file Republicans supported the idea; but Johnson denied having such conversations earlier on Thursday when asked by Fox News Digital.
"Recently, many members have encouraged me to endorse a new rule to raise this threshold. While I understand the importance of that idea, any rule change requires a majority of the full House, which we do not have. We will continue to govern under the existing rules," Johnson said on Thursday evening.
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