Mike Johnson May Push War Funding on Party-Line Vote

Punchbowl News: “The speaker inched ever closer to saying that he’ll try to put a large-scale Iran war funding bill in a reconciliation package. Johnson detailed the outlines for a path to approve tens or hundreds of billions of dollars to fund the Pentagon and the U.S. war in the Middle East on a party-line vote.”

“Johnson’s comments reflect the reality that reconciliation may be the only viable path for Republicans to pass an Iran war package, given staunch Democratic opposition.”