Mike Johnson blames Biden having 'senior moment' for Israel aid decision

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) questioned whether President Joe Biden’s comments threatening to withhold aid from Israel were due to cognitive decline.

In an interview with Politico, 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.