Remember when we warned you that the bill that was supposed to help Ukraine by imposing "massive" "biting" "mandatory" sanctions on Russia and forcing Trump to use tariffs to shut down their fossil fuel exports was badly flawed and would achieve none of those objectives?
Yeah.
![Sticking points. This change to the schedule all but guarantees that the House will not immediately consider the Russia sanctions bill that cleared the Senate in July.
Johnson told us this morning that he doesn’t have consensus among Republicans on the bill. Johnson noted Democrats are opposed as well.
“We have to build consensus around that final product,” Johnson said.
“As you’ve seen, the Democrat leadership in the House is opposed to it. The ranking member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, [New York Rep. Greg] Meeks, apparently is vehemently opposed to it, and I think the Democrat leadership is as well. This should be a bipartisan effort.”
Johnson acknowledged there are “a couple of pockets of concern” about the package among Republicans.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k7eezr2ybq7cxtptak2q4uhp/bafkreibvru345lleo75fufe3oooytxdckf5ymwp76465gdr3kivexybvoq)
