Ukraine, Israel Pose Early Tests for New House Speaker Mike Johnson.

(Bloomberg) -- Newly installed Speaker Mike Johnson confronts critical early tests with an emergency aid request for Ukraine and Israel and a mid-November funding deadline to keep open the US government - all made more difficult by House Republicans' ideological divide. While there is broad support for both Israel and Ukraine in Congress, more than half of the House GOP, including Johnson, voted last month against new Ukraine aid. Crucially, Johnson also said Republicans would seek cuts in the rest of the federal budget to offset emergency aid. [Extracted from the article]