so Congress is returning this week from a two-e break with a whole lot to tackle in the house Speaker Mike Johnson uh needs to navigate through a series of devisive issues including Ukraine Aid and funding for the Baltimore Bridge while working with a slimming majority and the threat of a motion of vacate and then in the Senate lawmakers this week will be presented articles of impeachment against DHS secretary Alejandra maoris NBC's Ali Vitalia is joining us now from uh Capitol Hill wow do they
have a lot on their plate um as they return from um two weeks off alley us through it a lot on their plate Yasmin Senate comes back this afternoon house comes back tomorrow I admit I think a lot of us are probably going to take a pause try to go outside in a little bit and see what we can see with the eclipse I have my themed heart themed Moon and Sun earrings on just in case so that we're in the spirit here but the to-do list is lengthy I mean put it back up on the screen we can walk through ea
ch one you've got Ukraine and military aid which has a million different threads baked into it renewing the surveillance program fisa that's going to be a focus early part this week reauthor reauthorizing the FAA funding for the Baltimore Bridge recovery the Senate impeachment act on May orcus though that's probably going to be quickly dispensed with on Thursday once the Senate actually takes it up Schumer is not going to spend much time there and then of course the bipartisan data privacy Bill
all of that going to be baked into this week but it's that top item on the list there the you the Ukraine military aid package that has wrapped into it isra Israel Aid as well as Taiwan Aid there are questions about if Ukraine Aid is going to be taken up in solitary capacity or if it's going to be another look at that larger Senate supplemental package that has really just been sitting lying in wait for several weeks now there and it's Ukraine Aid that might be the thing that cost Mike Johnson h
is job and the speakership listen to the way that some lawmakers are talking about it including congressman Adam Smith who told me over the weekend he would back Johnson up even as a Democrat if they get a vote on Ukraine Aid watch I think speaker Johnson is a good guy but if he brings up a foreign aid package sending billions of dollars to Ukraine without doing anything on the southern border it will be a disgrace and a massive betrayal not just of Republican voters but of the entire country if
speaker Johnson gives us a vote on Ukraine I and a whole lot of other Democrats will not support that motion I don't think he's at any risk I think that that what you know what people have been referring to is the chaos cockus those individuals who are seeking attention for themselves and trying to stop all of the important work in in Congress are now seen as merely disruptive so yasine the first guy that you heard from there Senator JD Vance not involved in the house process at all but indicat
ive of the way that some more right-wing house members are talking about the role of speaker Johnson here they don't want to see a vote on Ukraine Aid and in large part that's why congresswoman marjerie Taylor green is dangling this idea of a motion to vacate in the first place but then of course you've got the Dynamics within the more establishment wings and the majority of the Republican conference people like Congressman Mike Turner saying I don't really think that this is going to go anywher
e I think that the conventional knowledge around the motion to vacate is that but hey there could be Democrats coming in to back them up here too allly you're going to have to replace those um Eclipse earrings tomorrow with a gavlin dollar bill earrings if you have those okay Ali Vali Wars thank you appreciate it hey everyone MSNBC has a new and improved app you'll get realtime alerts and Analysis live blogs in-depth essays video highlights and the best 2024 election coverage download the new MS
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