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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) stated on Wednesday that no additional aid should be provided to Ukraine before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Johnson emphasized that the decision to allocate further aid to Ukraine should rest with Trump once he assumes the presidency in January, Breitbart News reported.

“As we predicted and as I said to all of you weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected it will change the dynamic of the Russian war on Ukraine, and we’re seeing that happen,” the Louisiana leader of the House said during a House Republican leadership press conference.

He stated that Trump’s electoral victory will alter the dynamic of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

“So it is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision now. We have a newly elected president, and we’re going to wait and take the new commander-in-chief’s direction on all that, so I don’t expect any Ukraine funding to come up now,” Johnson added.

The Biden administration has requested $8 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, which includes providing military equipment, funding for training its armed forces, and additional support. An additional $16 billion has been requested for the Department of Defense (DOD) to supply Ukraine with more resources.

In September, Trump said he would work to end the war in Ukraine even before he takes office.

“I want to get Russia to settle up with Ukraine and stop this — millions of people being killed, far greater than the number you read about. But I want to get that done before I even take office, I want to get that done as president-elect, because it has to be solved — too many people dying, too many cities are just in rubble right now, you look at the cultures just being destroyed,” he said at the time.

“We’ve got to get that done, and I’ll get it done. There wouldn’t have been an October 7th, there wouldn’t have been Russia attacking Ukraine, there wouldn’t be inflation, all this inflation which has hurt people so badly. You wouldn’t have had that horrible type of withdrawal — we were getting out of Afghanistan, but with dignity and strength — that was the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country,” Trump added.

“And frankly Russia would have never gone into Ukraine if it weren’t for that. They looked at that and they said, ‘This country is no longer run by Trump. This country is run by stupid people,’” he noted further.

In late November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the “hot war” with Russia could come to an end if Ukraine receives guaranteed protection under a “NATO umbrella” while pursuing the recovery of Russian-controlled territories through diplomatic means. But those conditions would be a non-starter for Russia.

Last month, after Trump blew out Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, on his way out of the White House, left the president-elect a “parting gift” — an escalation of the war between Ukraine and Russia.

Biden, or whoever is running the administration, inexplicably ‘authorized’ Ukraine to utilize long-range U.S. weapons for strikes on Russian soil, which was meant by a reminder from President Vladimir Putin that any escalation could force Moscow to deploy nuclear weapons, even if on a limited basis.

Biden’s authorization comes after reports earlier in the month said that North Korea had sent approximately 10,000 troops to Russia in preparation for introducing them into combat in Ukraine.

Administration officials hinted in May that the president could reverse course and authorize Ukrainian forces to use American-made and supplied weapons for strikes into Russia, but nothing developed over the course of the presidential election cycle. After Trump won, however, Biden changed his mind and gave the incoming administration a bigger problem.

The missiles, The Wall Street Journal reported, “could initially target positions in the Kursk region, where Russia has amassed more than 50,000 troops, including some 10,000 soldiers from North Korea, in an effort to recapture the territory.”

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