House Speaker Mike Johnson said Americans deserve accountability for the billions of dollars sent to Kiev
The administration of US President Joe Biden must clearly outline its end goals in the Ukraine conflict, and how any further funds will be spent, House Speaker Mike Johnson has said, as the White House desperately needs congressional approval to maintain the flow of weapons to Kiev.
The US must secure their own border before it secures anyone else’s, Speaker Johnson affirmed in his Sunday interview with CBS. This echoed the main focus of House Republicans’ opposition to the combined aid package pushed for by President Biden in late October 2023, over $60 billion of which was to be for Kiev. Republicans at the time insisted on locking their support for the package behind funding for stricter border controls with neighboring Mexico.
Blocking the bill last year was a Republican “message to the White House that they were not being clear with the…