{"id":2210525,"date":"2024-04-01T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-charts-path-forward-on-ukraine-aid-with-important-innovations\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:42:27","slug":"speaker-johnson-charts-path-forward-on-ukraine-aid-with-important-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-charts-path-forward-on-ukraine-aid-with-important-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson outlines new approaches for Ukraine aid with &#8216;significant advancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspeaker-johnson-charts-path-forward-on-ukraine-aid-with-important-innovations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2210525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Summary: Speaker Mike Johnson\u200c (R-LA) announced \u2062that the House intends\u2063 to review foreign aid legislation post-Easter recess, focusing on increasing \u200csupport for Ukraine and implementing innovative approaches like the REPO Act to utilize assets of Russian oligarchs. \u2062Johnson emphasized the importance of building a consensus on national security\u2063 matters, including actions\u2063 to aid Ukraine and counter Russian aggression.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-house-of-representatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House<\/a> will consider foreign aid legislation that would provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-says-hes-confident-house-will-vote-on-ukraine-aid-after-easter-recess\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more assistance to Ukraine<\/a> along with \u201cimportant innovations\u201d after the Easter recess, Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wmcBNTCF1ZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Fox News host Trey Gowdy that lawmakers have been \u201cworking to build a consensus\u201d to address national security issues that he said begins with U.S. border security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been talking to all the members, especially now in the district work period. When we return after this work period, we\u2019ll be moving a product,\u201d Johnson said, suggesting there could be action as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to \u2014 I think \u2014 have some important innovations: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/press\/rep\/release\/risch-whitehouse-applaud-committee-passage-of-repo-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The REPO Act<\/a>. If we can use the seized assets of Russian oligarchs to allow the Ukrainians to fight them, that\u2019s just pure poetry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also mentioned a \u201cloan concept\u201d that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lindsey-graham-meets-zelensky-says-he-floated-trumps-loan-idea-for-ukraine-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">floated<\/a> by former President Donald Trump as a way to continue aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not just giving foreign aid, we\u2019re setting it up in a relationship where they can provide it back to us when the time is right,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker said lawmakers want to \u201crelease\u201d American energy and have natural gas exports that will \u201chelp unfund\u201d Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war effort in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things that we should do that make more sense and that I think we\u2019ll have consensus around. We\u2019re putting that product together and we\u2019ll be moving it right after the district work period,\u201d Johnson added.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the Democrat-led Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senate-passes-95-billion-foreign-aid-bill-despite-opposition-from-over-half-of-republican-senators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed<\/a> a $95 billion foreign aid bill that would allocate money for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, responding to President Joe Biden\u2019s national security supplemental request.<\/p>\n<p>While the House has refused to consider the legislation, with Johnson insisting border security reforms must be part of the equation, some GOP members have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-says-hes-confident-house-will-vote-on-ukraine-aid-after-easter-recess\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed for alternatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During his conversation with Gowdy, Johnson also responded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-files-motion-to-oust-mike-johnson-as-house-speaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion<\/a> from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to oust him as speaker after the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-files-motion-to-oust-mike-johnson-as-house-speaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed<\/a> a $1.2 trillion spending bill.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all of my other Republican colleagues recognize this is a distraction from our mission \u2026 to save the Republic and the only way we can do that is if we grow the House majority, win the Senate, and win the White House,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Calling Greene a \u201cfriend,\u201d Johnson said he shares her frustrations about government spending. He added that they have exchanged text messages and plan to talk soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to talk with her about reforming the budgeting and spending process going forward. That\u2019s what Republicans are for. That\u2019s the transformational kind of changes that we can forge, if we all stand together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Easter recess, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that the House will review foreign aid legislation, including increased support for Ukraine and &#8220;important innovations.&#8221; Johnson shared with Fox News&#8217; Trey Gowdy that lawmakers are focused on building consensus to address critical national security issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2210526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2095070354-scaled-e1711982095157.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2095070354-scaled-e1711982095157.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}