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"We're not going to be forced into action by the Senate,"
Johnson said at House leaders' weekly news conference.
He reiterated his insistence that any package of international
military and humanitarian assistance must also include measures
to address security at the U.S. border with Mexico.
The Senate passed the security bill without border provisions on
Tuesday after Republicans blocked a version of the bill, the
result of months of bipartisan negotiations, that included the
biggest overhaul of U.S. immigration policy in decades.
The aid package received 70 votes - including "ayes" from 22
Republicans - in the Senate, which is narrowly controlled by
Democrats. But to become law, it must also pass the House, where
Johnson's Republicans have a slim majority and thus exert almost
total control over what comes up for a vote.
"We're going to continue to demand that before we take care of
issues all around the world, we take care of our own first,"
Johnson said, referring to border measures.
He said that Republicans had refused the compromise bill with
border measures because it was inadequate. "The reason that the
other one was dead on arrival is because it did not meet the
moment, it would not have solved the problem," Johnson said.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, additional reporting by Makini
Brice and Katharine Jackson; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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