President Joe Biden asked the House of Representatives to pass an aid package for Israel’s war against Hamas and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivered. The Republican majority gave Biden what he sought on Israel. But now the president says it isn’t good enough.
Biden is demanding that the House deliver on his full request, which included money for Ukraine’s fight to repel a Russian invasion, money for Taiwan, money for humanitarian aid to Gaza, money for cities dealing with the migrant crisis, and security assistance for the Indo-Pacific region.
These issues have nothing in common other than the fact that bundling all the spending together would make things politically easier for Biden by making nay votes more politically costly. But Biden’s grim electoral prospects are not Speaker Johnson’s problem. Each of the bundled issues is important and…
