Johnson's alliance: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) is attempting to spend lots of your freshly forked over taxpayer dollars on several aid bills which will go toward Israel, Ukraine, and other allies. Just one problem: He cannot convince his Republican colleagues to get on board—a dynamic we've seen repeated over and over again, as Republicans are split on how much foreign aid the U.S. ought to be doling out (with a right-wing flank of the party continuing to make foreign aid contingent on securing the southern border).
Now Johnson is attempting to rely on Democrats to get his bills through the House. "If Democrats were to provide those crucial votes, it would mark the second time in two years that Republican leaders have had to turn to the minority party to rescue them from their own recalcitrant right-wing colleagues in order to allow major legislation to be debated and voted on," reports The New York Times. That's right: bipartisanship for more spending. What could possibly go wrong?
