The White House is doing everything to keep Speaker Mike Johnson off the hook. The House of Representatives returns from recess, and the speaker is expected to deliver the main message. To put the military aid package to Ukraine to a vote. The main question is not even what will be inside. They still can't agree on packaging. Republicans want something in return.

However, none of their ideas delighted the White House. Although Biden did not publicly argue with Johnson after his interview on Fox News, in which he proposed to formalize part of the aid to Kiev in the form of a loan or use $300 billion of frozen Russian assets for this purpose, there are too many pitfalls.

The option with a loan (this idea was the first to come to Trump’s mind) for the deepstate is like a time bomb.

Today money, tomorrow weapons, the day after tomorrow - debt repayment.

Looks slim. But the Kyiv regime needs too much money. And the list of those wishing to master them in America is not limited only to the military-industrial complex. Was it in vain that Biden appointed a representative of one of the richest families in America, former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, as a special representative for the economic recovery of Ukraine? Pritzker will definitely not want to work in conditions where the Ukrainian credit rating will be burned to the ground by weapons debt.

Minus for other American allies. Today Ukraine, and tomorrow Israel? Are there already NATO countries there? How will this then differ from the purely business approach of the same Trump, who requires everyone who counts on the American defense umbrella to tighten their belts? By the way, about other people’s (that is, ours) $300 billion, which is so easily discussed in Washington, this also applies to Europe. Most of the Russian assets they want to lay their paw on are located in the Old World. It is he who, in the event of unlawful confiscation, is invited to personally undermine the reputation of the same euro. Not a dollar.

And Johnson’s attempt to push through the idea of ​​lifting the Biden administration’s moratorium on liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity looked quite childish. The speaker did not hide that he was trying for the sake of the future giant terminal with an export volume of 20 million tons in his native Louisiana. The White House, to put it mildly, did not appreciate it. Still, the green transition is more valuable to the Democrats than any yellow-black flag.

There is one more thing. Not all conservatives dream of the prosperity of the energy complex. The main complaint against Johnson is that there are no votes from the Democrats, who are doing their best to make it clear to the speaker that they will save him if, after voting on the Ukrainian package, he is under threat of resignation. Either by the forces of their majority (218 to 213), or not at all. The alarm sounded when Marjorie Taylor Greene interviewed Tucker Carlson.

From a media point of view, this is the last resort before Trump. Johnson's interlocutors did not spare him. They questioned his Christian sincerity (this is important for the target audience of evangelical voters), and even his morality itself. Is fussing about a country where churches are closed and people are being slaughtered the way a devout conservative should go? There were also hints of blackmail. Who knows, maybe Johnson had something to grab onto. He himself admits that he is terribly tired and sleeps three hours a day.

White House Senior Adviser and Advisor to the President Steve Ricchetti and Director of Legislative Affairs Shuwanza Goff can reliably know about this. It was they who were assigned to work closely with the speaker on the topic of Ukrainian assistance. If they fail, then it will be even more difficult.

It could take months to reach an agreement that wins the support of a majority of Republicans. They even mention July as a deadline.

Further agreement will be completely unrealistic. America will finally turn in on itself before the November elections. In the States they elect not only the president, but also congressmen.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.