House Speaker Mike Johnson will need the support of the chamber’s Democrats and their party leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., to get an aid bill for Ukraine to the floor for debate, putting the Democrats in a position of power over the measure and further angering Republicans calling for a vote to vacate Johnson’s seat.

Johnson will also need the Democrats’ votes to pass the legislation, but needing their votes on the procedural motion to bring the legislation to the floor is an unusual expectation, reported The New York Times. 

For years, it has been a foregone conclusion that party members would agree in a straight-line party vote to bring a bill to the floor, even if they did not plan to approve it once it got there, but in recent years, House Republicans have been blocking routine rule votes. 

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