A bill and a thorn in it: it is not certain that the program for security assistance to Israel and Ukraine will be implemented

The Republican Chairman of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson , presented a plan to advance separate bills for security assistance to Israel and Ukraine with votes by the end of this week, but the chances of success are unclear in the face of the opposition of the extremists in the Republican Party who demand also to introduce measures to tighten security on the border with Mexico and due to The demand of the Democrats to also include humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

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According to the outline presented by Johnson tonight (Tuesday), three separate bills for security assistance will be placed on the table of the House of Representatives – for Israel, for Ukraine and for Taiwan and other allies. Another bill is expected to include other sections related to national security, including the use of confiscated Russian assets for aid to Ukraine and sanctions on Iran. Johnson aims to hold the votes by the end of the week, before lawmakers go into recess for a week.

"We know the world is watching us to see how we will respond," Johnson told reporters after presenting the plan to a closed meeting of the Republican caucus. "There are terrorists and dictators and terrible leaders around the world like Putin and Xi and Iran, and they are looking to see if the US will stand up for its allies and for our interests around the world – and we will."

Last February, the Senate approved the elements of Johnson's proposals, but within the framework of a unified and comprehensive security assistance package that included an allocation of $14 billion for Israel, $60 billion for Ukraine and $5 billion for aid to allies in the Indo-Pacific region vis-a-vis China.

However, the Senate package also included an allocation of $9 billion for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, an element that does not currently appear in the House Speaker's proposal. Senior Democratic Party officials indicated that they would be willing to help Johnson advance the legislation if he also included the humanitarian component.

However, Johnson also faces possible opposition from the extreme current in the Republican Party, which demands that aid to Ukraine be conditioned on measures to tighten security measures on the southern border with Mexico, which currently do not exist in the new proposals. "A lot of conservatives are very disappointed with the way this is going," said Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green . "He broke his promise." She added that Johnson "certainly will not be the chairman in the next Congress" and did not rule out the possibility of trying to oust him soon.

"The border should be a priority," said the member of Congress, Eli Crane , who called the issuance of the sections concerning the border "a terrible and terrible thing." "How many times have you heard the leadership and other Republicans say that 'this is the hill on which we will kill ourselves,' and now all of that has just disappeared. I don't like it." "The American people will be very disappointed if we don't require border security to fund Ukraine, because we've been saying for six months that's what we're going to do," added Congressman Bob Goode , chairman of the Freedom Caucus in the Republican Party.