House Democrats Look to Force Vote on Ukraine, Israel Package

It’s been around one month since the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, rejected a foreign aid package from the Senate that would send $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and humanitarian assistance in Gaza. Now, Democratic members of Congress are setting out to get enough bipartisan support to force the vote. Their effort takes the form of a discharge position sponsored by a ranking member of the House Rules Committee, Rep. Jim McGovern (D–Mass.). It already has 84 signatures as of this article’s publication, but it needs 218 signatures to force a vote, which means it requires Republican signatures. “What we are asking our colleagues—Democrats and Republicans—is to sign the discharge petition that will bring to the floor the Senate national security bipartisan supplemental,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (D–Calif.), chair of the House Democratic Caucus, said on March 12 during a press briefing in the Capitol....