Trump praises Mike Johnson for 'trying very hard' with a SLIM Republican ... trends now
Donald Trump praised Mike Johnson and pushed back on efforts from his own followers to oust the speaker in a seemingly toned-down message after the House passed a foreign aid package over the weekend.
'Look, we have a majority of one, OK? It's not like he can go and do whatever he wants to do,' the former president noted on Real America's Voice Monday night.
'I think he's a very good person. You know, he stood very strongly with me on NATO,' Trump went on. 'I think he's trying very hard.'
On Saturday the House passed a $95 billion package with $60 billion for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel and Gaza and around $4 billion for the Indo-Pacific.
Johnson has rankled conservative hardliners by cutting deals with Democrats on full-year government spending, putting a bill to reauthorize FISA, a surveillance tool, without warrants on the floor and passing Ukraine aid.
Donald Trump praised Mike Johnson and pushed back on efforts from his own followers to oust the speaker in a seemingly toned down message after the House passed a foreign aid package over the weekend
Johnson has rankled conservative hardliners by cutting deals with Democrats on full-year government spending, putting a bill to reauthorize FISA, a surveillance tool, without warrants on the floor and passing Ukraine aid
Three Republicans - led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a staunch Trump acolyte - have signed on to a motion to vacate Johnson from the speakership over his handling of spending and foreign aid.
House Republicans are left with a narrow, one-vote cushion after the departure of Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., over the weekend.
Though Trump has backed Johnson up before, appearing with him at a news conference at Mar-a-Lago weeks ago, it is the former president's first defense of the speaker since he passed a bill to send more aid to Ukraine.
Trump has not taken as hard an opposition to Ukraine as some GOP hardliners, noting the country is 'in desperate need' but insisting Europe should do more to help.
'Why isn't Europe giving more money to help Ukraine?' Trump mused on Truth Social. 'Why is it that the U.S. is over $100 billion into the Ukraine war more than Europe, and we have an
