Mike Johnson’s future is at stake: Republican Warren Davidson joins Marjorie Taylor Greene in warning Speaker Mike Johnson that he WILL face a vote to impeach him if he proposes a $60 billion Ukrainian bill. ..and at least eight of his GOP colleagues will support it

Republican Rep. Warren Davidson has a warning for Speaker Mike Johnson: Put a sweeping national security package on the floor of the House of Representatives and you risk your job.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., sent Johnson to a two-week Easter break with a motion to evict that could lead to a vote to oust him from the speakership at any time she favors it.

With a Republican majority of one vote, Johnson can hardly lose any support if he wants to continue leading the conference, unless the Democrats come to the rescue.

“Her statement for some time has been that she should not submit a huge additional bill to fund Ukraine or I will move,” Davidson told DailyMail.com.

“I believe so, and I think if the speaker comes up with a huge supplemental bill to fund a whole bunch of other things and not defend America, the speaker is going to have a lot of problems,” the Foreign Affairs Committee member added. Business and the Ohio Republican to it.

“I think there will be people who will join the Republican conference, and probably more than eight of them.”

Greene said she was prompted to launch the effort by frustrations over 2024 spending bills. But she has long warned Johnson against bringing further aid to Ukraine to the House of Representatives.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., sent Johnson to a two-week Easter vacation with a motion to evict that could trigger a vote to oust him from the speakership anytime she privileges it

Eight Republicans voted with all Democrats in October to impeach Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Johnson is now grappling with how to approach aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which conservative hardliners say the US cannot afford.

The White House has requested, and the Senate has already approved, an additional $60 billion for the country that has been fending off Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion for more than two years now.

Davidson is pushing for votes on “single subject” foreign aid bills, which would allow members to decide which countries to support by sending more resources.

He acknowledged the pressure Johnson faces to deliver aid – despite fierce right-wing opposition.

“There are ways he could do it that probably cause a lot of problems for the conference and for the rest of the agenda and probably for his path as a speaker, but you know, it’s clear that a lot of people want that (help). votes,” Davidson said.

“Frankly, it’s probably a lot of people that American ground forces have captured in Ukraine.”

In a new statement on Thursday, Johnson suggested he would attach border provisions to any foreign aid package.

“As I have always said, national security begins at our southern border. Any funding for the President’s additional request must be based on meaningful policies to help the American people and ultimately address the invasion at our southern border.”

The House of Representatives is expected to take up an additional financing package with foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific in the weeks after the Easter recess.

But the details of the package remain unclear. It is expected to include some provisions from HR 2, the House Republican border package.

Some policymakers have pushed for Russian assets to be seized, rather than just frozen, and repurposed for Ukraine under the REPO law. But the process would be difficult and has essentially never been done before.

The US, the European Union, the G-7 and Australia have frozen about $280 billion in Russian Central Bank assets, much of it in the form of securities and cash. Sanctions on Russian nationals have frozen another $58 billion in assets, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

The US, UK and Canada are all in favor of seizing the assets. But France, Germany and the European Central Bank have expressed concern about possible Russian retaliation and a precedent it would set for international law.

In this photo taken from a video and released by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense on Thursday, April 4, 2024, a Russian tank fires at a secret location in Ukraine

Others have suggested that support for Ukraine will likely include a Lend-Lease provision. Providing defense equipment under the Lend-Lease Act means that it is intended to be returned if it is not destroyed in the war. Funds could also be loaned to Ukraine with the promise that they would be repaid in the long term.

Meanwhile, Johnson previously proposed lifting the ban on liquefied natural gas exports after Biden said in January he would pause application approvals to analyze the economic and environmental impact. It is not clear whether the White House agrees.

Johnson would likely need significant Democratic support to pass the legislation, as many of his Republicans remain staunchly opposed to further financing of Ukraine.

Democrats largely support funding Ukraine’s war against Russia, but some progressives might turn up their noses at a package that includes money for Israel, which they say has not paid enough attention to Palestinian civilian lives in its mission to root out Hamas. The recent murder of an American aid worker could further entrench their opposition.

Greene launched her bid to potentially oust the speaker after a $1.2 trillion bill that funded six government agencies. She has not “privileged” the resolution, meaning it will loom over Johnson’s head and she has the ability to quickly vote on it at any time.

She said she is no closer to withdrawing her motion to leave, and views Johnson as a “Democratic speaker” who doesn’t spend time listening to his Republican conference.

“He can’t be Speaker of the House of Representatives,” she said. ‘That’s just not possible, I won’t vote for him. Many other Republican members say the same thing. He is not our speaker. He’s the Democratic speaker.”