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April 18, 2024 For Immediate Release Contact: Taylor Haulsee Speaker Johnson joined Newsmax to discuss the House’s national security supplemental
WASHINGTON — This evening, Speaker Johnson joined “The Record” with Greta Van Susteren to discuss the difference in the House national security supplemental legislation and the Senate foreign aid package, and crucial border security measures.
Click here to watch the full interview.
On the House national security supplemental:
What we did was we rejected the Senate supplemental bill because it was everything merged into one and it didn’t have some of these important features that we want in the bill. So, we redrafted it and we’re going to send them a House supplemental bill, it’s very different. For one thing, we broke it into four pieces. We have the Israel component, the Ukraine component, the Indo-Pacific component, and then we have a fourth bill that is in this package, that has a lot of our innovations included like the REPO Act, where we use the seized assets of corrupt Russian oligarchs to fund the opposition in Ukraine.
Everybody thinks that makes sense. President Trump is credited with really advancing this idea of the loan concept to your point and so what we’ve done is we say any of the funding that goes to Ukraine for this governmental assistance is in the form of a loan that’s in our package that are the House will be voting on early Saturday.
The rule has been finished up tonight to make that possible. We’ve also included a lot of other things like increasing sanctions against Iran and Russia. We’re going to change the strategy and have a lot more oversight and accountability over the funds because that’s what the American people deserve. But as I’ve said so many times in the last 24 hours, you know, I’d rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys, we don’t want to have boots on the ground, and we can prevent that by allowing them to hold Putin at bay.
On oversight of humanitarian aid:
We’ve required in the House’s version of this strict accountability. The White House has to give reports of the funds and we ban any of that funding from going to UNRWA to, you know, any of the UN agencies that are involved with any of the terrorist organizations. These are really, really important things. This is the precious treasure of the American people.
On border security:
The border is the number one priority of the House Republicans, we fight for it here every single day. I’ve been doing it since I became Speaker and way before. Since Joe Biden entered the Oval Office, he’s created an absolute catastrophe at the border. And you and I don’t need to recount all the statistics and the parade of horrible that has come out of that we must fix it.
The American people demand it and we fight every day. I’ve been trying to push the president to use his executive authority to close that border and he refuses to do it. We passed HR 2, our signature legislation, the Secure the Border Act. It would fix every one of these problems. It’s been sitting on Chuck Schumer’s desk for over a year. We have continued to work every single day we’ve passed resolution.
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