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Mike Johnson’s effort to advance funding for Ukraine and Israel could trigger far-right attempt to oust him from speaker role
Good morning and happy hump day to US politics readers. Wednesday could finally see the publication of speaker Mike Johnson’s long-awaited plan to save his job, quell Republican infighting and advance urgent foreign aid for Israel and Ukraine.
There’s been plenty of talk, and little action so far, on how the Republican leader plans to present solutions for the funding impasse that has further highlighted fractures in his divided caucus.
Democrats in Arizona are preparing to try to repeal the controversial 1864 abortion bill that has prompted huge blowback and poses a threat to Republican candidates in November’s elections.
Attorney general Merrick Garland and energy secretary Jennifer Granholm are testifying before the Senate’s appropriations subcommittee this morning.
Long-serving Florida governor and US senator Bob Graham, a Democratic political heavyweight who also ran for president in 2004, has died aged 87.
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