Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Wednesday that there should not be more aid for Ukraine ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Johnson said that the decision to provide more aid for Ukraine should fall on Trump when he becomes the president again in January.
“As we predicted and as I said to all of you weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected it will change the dynamic of the Russian war on Ukraine, and we’re seeing that happen,” the Louisiana leader of the House said during a House Republican leadership press conference. He added that Trump’s electoral victory will change the dynamic of the protracted conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
“So it is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision now, we have a newly elected president and we’re going to wait and take the new commander in chief’s direction on all that, so I…
