U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Oct. 11 that he no longer has “an appetite for further Ukraine funding” and hopes that a November electoral victory for former U.S. President Donald Trump will bring a swift end to the war. Johnson, a Republican and staunch Trump supporter, has served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives since October 2023. He helped delay aid to Kyiv last fall by refusing to hold a vote on various iterations of a $61 billion foreign assistance bill, but eventually reached a deal to pass the bill. “I don’t have an appetite for further Ukraine funding, and I ho…