GOP Keeps Fighting Each Other.

April 23, 2024 Glen Turpening

The Ukraine aid package passed by Congress continues to reverberate through the halls of Congress. ‘Washington Post’

In social media posts and TV interviews afterward, House Republicans took aim at one another — in unusually sharp terms — over the events that led up to the vote. Ultimately, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had to rely on a majority of Democrats to push through the most controversial piece of the package — $60 billion in aid to Ukraine for its war against Russia — in a gamble that could cost him his speakership. “It’s my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags,” Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Tex.) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” calling out two GOP colleagues — Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Bob Good (Va.) — who have broken with Johnson and voted against other legislation proposed by the GOP majority.

By Patrick Svitek and Marianna Sotomayor, 'Washington Post'

The GOP now has a leader in the House that appeared to buck the Republican establishment in DC and be far more aligned with Donald Trump’s isolationism. Well he has proven otherwise much to the chagrin of some of the most vocal members of GOP Freedom Caucus. Now the spotlight shifts to the few members who have vowed to oust Speaker Johnson if he passed the Ukraine aid package. It remains to be seen if Rep. Greene of Georgia is willing to plunge the chamber into chaos once again by trying to topple Rep. Johnson from his perch. Either way Moscow is not happy with the new line of funding aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defenses.