A proposed House rule faces a crucial vote Friday in the latest showdown between Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican lawmakers. The rule would combine four unrelated foreign aid bills into a single legislative package—an approach favored by President Joe Biden but long resisted by conservatives.
Johnson, R-La., has pledged that lawmakers will get to vote on each of the four bills individually. However, following those separate votes, the bills will be consolidated into a $95.3 billion unified package without further deliberation.
This combined legislation would then be sent to the Senate, where it is expected to pass.
In a rare bipartisan vote by the Rules Committee late Thursday night, the panel adopted the rule, 9-3, and sent it to the House floor. The committee’s three conservative members—Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Chip Roy,…
