After the House passed a bill that would send $61 billion in aid to Ukraine and $26 billion to Israel, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) appears to be fighting for his position as the top bespectacled dog in the lower chamber.
Johnson has managed to anger the conservative faction of House Republicans on multiple occasions, not only supporting more taxpayer funding of other countries but also casting the tiebreaking vote against an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that would allow federal agencies to conduct surveillance on American citizens without a warrant.
His recent moves came after Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) threatened to follow through with a motion to vacate to remove him from his position in a similar initiative that was successfully launched against former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But there is reason to believe…
