A meeting to advance Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s latest border security bill abruptly ended on Wednesday night without a vote on whether the measure will hit the House floor.<\/p>\n
\u2018Sorry, not sorry, for opposing a cr\u2014y rule that is a show vote \/ cover vote for funding Ukraine instead of border security,\u2019 Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wrote on X after the meeting imploded.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s one of three Republican foreign aid hawks on the House Rules Committee, which is the final barrier before a piece of legislation hits the House floor.<\/p>\n
It comes as conservative rebels in the House GOP conference criticize the speaker\u2019s decision not to link border security measures to his $95 billion foreign aid plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Johnson told lawmakers on Wednesday that\u00a0the House would consider separate foreign aid bills on Ukraine, Israel, the Indo-Pacific and a fourth bill including various foreign policy provisions. If passed, they would be sent to the Senate in a combined package.<\/p>\n
To appease Republicans concerned about not using it as an opportunity to crack down on the border crisis, he also unveiled a separate bill similar to H.R.2, the comprehensive immigration and border enforcement bill House Republicans passed last year but which the Democrat-controlled Senate refused to take up. He said that bill would go through procedural hurdles parallel to the foreign aid bills, rather than alongside them.<\/p>\n
In a remarkable moment toward the end of the meeting, Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., the top Democrat on the committee, acknowledged that the bill has no support from Democrats and likely no future in Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s Senate. He also pointed out that the three conservative rebels on the panel would likely vote against the bill as well \u2013 meaning it would not even survive their committee.<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019ve been here. We\u2019ve done this already. We know what the Senate is going to do. And my three colleagues, who I know have been expressing some discontent about what\u2019s going on here, I mean, maybe we can end this hearing. I mean, I think if the three of you vote \u2018no\u2019 on this rule, we\u2019re done,\u2019 McGovern said.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that Roy called it a \u2018watered-down, dangerous cover vote\u2019 and asked him, along with Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., if they planned to vote in favor of advancing the bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Massie and Roy would not say, with Roy adding, \u2018I think I\u2019m pretty well publicly not in favor of what\u2019s going here.\u2019 Norman said he would oppose the bill.<\/p>\n
The hearing soon recessed without a conclusion.<\/p>\n
Foreign aid and aid to Ukraine, specifically, have proven to be politically fraught topics for Johnson as he navigates a historically slim House majority and new threats from fellow Republicans to trigger a vote on his ouster.<\/p>\n
Johnson has argued that tying U.S. border measures to foreign aid, especially Ukraine, would kill its chances of passing .\u2019We want the border to be part of every single thing we do here,\u2019 he told reporters on Thursday morning, adding, \u2018We don\u2019t have the votes. If you put Ukraine in any package, you can\u2019t also do the border because I lose Republican votes on that rule. My friends don\u2019t get it.\u2019<\/p>\n
He was initially aiming for a Saturday vote on the foreign aid bills as well as the measure on border security. It\u2019s not clear how the Wednesday evening chaos will affect that schedule.<\/p>\n
Fox News\u2019 Chad Pergram contributed to this report<\/p>\n\n
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