House Will Vote On A Ukraine Aid Bill, Johnson Says, But Specifics Still Hazy [Video]

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — The House will vote on a bill to provide much-needed weapons to Ukraine in its war with Russia, but the contours of such a bill still need to be worked out, according to a report.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), in an interview with Politico, said he expects aid to Ukraine and Israel would come to the floor either tied together or as two separate stand-alone bills.

“I think it is a stand-alone, and I suspect it will need to be on suspension,” Johnson was quoted as saying, referring to the floor process used where a bill requires two-thirds support in order to be approved.

Johnson was in West Virginia with his fellow House Republicans for an annual policy and politics retreat at the Greenbrier resort.

Johnson’s “stand-alone” phrasing, however, does not mean the bill would simply be an up or down vote on whether to provide, as President Joe Biden proposed, about $48 …