Mike Johnson questioned whether President Joe Biden's comments threatening to withhold aid from Israel were due to cognitive decline.
, Johnson, fresh off defeating an effort to unseat him as speaker, expressed shock over Biden’s remarks Wednesday night, in which the president said the United States would cut off the flow of offensive weapons to Israel if it went through with its invasion of Rafah. The House speaker said it was so foreign to the sentiment expressed in private conversations that he believes Biden may have slipped up.
“And my reaction honestly was: Wow, that is a complete turn from what I have been told even in, you know, recent hours,” Johnson said. “I mean, 24 hours ago, it was confirmed to me by top administration officials that the policy’s very different than what he stated there. So I hope that’s a senior moment.”
The House speaker added that administration officials had assured him previously that initial reports that aid could be cut off in the event of a Rafah invasion weren’t accurate. He described a confused back-and-forth over Israeli aid, moving him to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly.
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