Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson announced that he would not bring the bill on aid to Ukraine to the vote despite the fact that the document passed the Senate.
This was reported by the New York Times.
The opposition Republicans in the House of Representatives are threatening to kill the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel that the Senate overwhelmingly passed on Tuesday.
Hours before the Senate approved the bill by a unilateral vote, Speaker Mike Johnson suggested he would not allow a vote on the aid package in the House.
"House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at our own border," Johnson said, adding, "In the absence of having received any single border policy change from the Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters."
The article notes that earlier this month, Mike Johnson had already rejected a bipartisan border bill drafted in the Senate. He said that repressions on the US-Mexico border should be tougher.
Senators often hope that a majority vote in favor of a bill in their chamber will push the House of Representatives to pass its legislation. Hours after the Senate approved the aid package, President Biden tried to increase pressure on Mr. Johnson, urging him from the White House to "bring the bill to the floor immediately."
"So, I call on the Speaker to let the full House speak its mind and not allow a minority of most extreme voices in the House to block this bill even from being voted on," Biden said.
We will remind, earlier "Apostrophe" reported that US Senate passed a legislation providing $95.3 billion in foreign aid to Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine.