House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced Wednesday that he does not plan to approve President Joe Biden’s recent proposals for additional Ukraine spending, signaling a shift in congressional priorities with the incoming administration.
“I’m not planning to do that,” Johnson stated in response to a reporter’s question about Biden’s latest Ukraine aid package. “There are developments by the hour in Ukraine,” he said, hinting at rapidly changing dynamics in the region.
Speaker Mike Johnson about new fundings to Ukraine: “I don’t expect any Ukraine funding to come up.”pic.twitter.com/LRP8e3mr9L
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Johnson emphasized that decisions on Ukraine funding should align with the direction of the newly elected president, Donald Trump. “As I said weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected, it will change the dynamic of the Russia-Ukraine war, and we’re seeing that happen,” he noted. “It is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision now. We have a newly elected president, and we’re going to wait and take the new commander-in-chief’s direction on that. I don’t expect any Ukraine funding to come up.”
In the final months of his term, President Biden has ramped up efforts to secure