Johnson Floats Voting on Senate Ukraine Bill, With Conservative Policies as Sweeteners nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/…

New: “We’re going to get this done,” Johnson told congressional leaders re: Ukraine aid yesterday.

He’s still sifting through options but has floated the idea of putting the Senate-passed bill to a vote, alongside a “sidecar” of conservative policies. nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/…

Asked by Kristen Holmes whether he supports a motion to vacate, Trump praises both Johnson and MTG, saying he gets along with both — but then makes clear he's supportive of Johnson.

'I stand with the speaker, we have a good relationship,' he said.

Big lifeline for Johnson here.

Trump: “I stand with the speaker. We’ve had a very good relationship.”

Says “it’s not an easy situation for any speaker… he’s doing a very good job, he’s doing about as good as you’re going to do. And I’m sure Marjorie understands that.”

CONGRESS HISTORY MADE TODAY:

When Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addressed the U.S. Congress today, he became the first foreign leader addressing a Joint Meeting of Congress ever to get applause for saying 'Yabba-Dabba Do!'

Johnson to The 700 Club on the MTV threat hanging over him: “Well, I try to follow all the biblical admonitions as I do every day. And one of them says you bless those who persecute you. I'm getting a lot of practice in that right now.”

6M women went to work for the nation during WWII. Decades later, some of them, now white-haired and in their 90s, received the Congressional Gold Medal.

“It was a man’s world. They didn’t know how capable us women were, did they?” ⁦Kayla Guo⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

“To read their legislation is to visualize a map of the physical and psychic toll the nation’s nuclear weapons’ legacy has seared into communities across the country, years after the 1st atomic test in New Mexico.”

Read ⁦Catie Edmondson⁩ from STL nytimes.com/2024/04/06/us/…

It should be illegal for 3 out of 4 House-side bars to be closed on a day a rule goes down

NEW: Appropriators made over 1,000 increases to procurement and R&D programs totaling $21.2B in FY24 defense $$ legislation passed last month, according to a new Taxpayers for Common Sense analysis.

That includes $11.6B of hikes where the Pentagon sought $0.

Details in today’s Morning Defense:

One quarter of all kidneys from organ donors get thrown in the trash.

At Statecraft, we uncovered why a corrupt monopolist has managed organ procurement for 40 years, and how it’s getting fixed.
statecraft.pub/p/how-to-stop-…

Moderator: “Do you believe Joe Biden won that election”

McCarthy: “Yes.”

Moderator: Then, how do you explain your vote to decertify his win?

McCarthy defends vote by saying even if AZ & PA electoral votes were thrown out, Biden still would have won.

Today, I was honored to welcome UK Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron to the U.S. Capitol. Working together, our two nations must continue to lead by example and invest in deterring serious challenges around the world.

Biden district R Rep. Ciscomani calls the Arizona ruling a 'disaster for women and providers'

there's trouble and there's 'posted on the masters tee time board to call your wife' trouble

“To watch people kind of give thumbs up or a thumbs down on your life ... It's like, what do you have to say and do to convince people that you matter?”

Catie Edmondson on how people harmed by the drive for an atomic bomb have been shut out of a federal law to help such victims

In 1942 a handshake agreement cemented St. Louis as the home of the first uranium processing site fueling the Manhattan Project.

Decades later, its legacy — generations of families sickened by exposure to toxic waste — is still haunting the city. nytimes.com/2024/04/06/us/…

In 1942 a handshake agreement cemented St. Louis as the home of the first uranium processing site fueling the Manhattan Project.

Decades later, its legacy — generations of families sickened by exposure to toxic waste — is still haunting the city. nytimes.com/2024/04/06/us/…

SCOOP: Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 tells me Reuters in interview that World Central Kitchen was deliberately targeted while delivering aid to Gaza and says Israel and three United States must do more to get humanitarian aid in. He questioned how the US could supply aid and military support to Israel

Culver's, not In-N-Out, is the burger restaurant that truly deserves the weird regional cult following.