President Joe Biden said on Monday that he would be willing to meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) about a foreign aid package that is making its way through Congress.
The roughly $95 billion bill that would allocate funds to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and other foreign priorities — including humanitarian aid — made it through the Senate last week, but its prospects don’t look favorable in the House.
“I’d be happy to meet with him if he has anything to say,” Biden said when asked about meeting with Johnson about the national security legislation, according to press pool reports.
Johnson criticized the Senate package for a dearth of border security policy changes after an immigration deal was dropped from the legislation once a group of Republicans and leftist senators blocked the larger bill from advancing.
“In the absence of having received any single border policy…
