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“I stand with the speaker,” is what former President Donald Trump said about Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a press conference last week. Johnson faces threats of removal by a few hardliner House Republicans — especially Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) – over his agreement to approve the $60 billion bipartisan package to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia. For months, the speaker refused to moved the US Senate approved bill forward in an effort to appease his far-right colleagues, but on Saturday, he finally brought the foreign aid package to the House floor, successfully passing the …

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