Anthony Albanese personally lobbies America's new house speaker to help cement the AUKUS submarines deal by the end of this year – just a day after Mike Johnson's appointment to the powerful job.
Anthony Albanese has personally lobbied America's new house speaker to help cement the AUKUS submarines deal by the end of this year – just a day after his appointment to the powerful job.But some Republicans have raised fears the deal could weaken the US submarine fleetMike Johnson was voted into the speakership on Tuesday morning, ending three weeks of paralysis in the US congress.
But this year, 25 Republicans raised concerns with President Joe Biden, telling him the deal could short-change America of its own naval needs and "unacceptably weaken" the local fleet. Democratic congressman Joe Courtney, who co-chairs the AUKUS working group, said there was "an urgency" to the deal and the US must not "fumble the ball".To say Anthony Albanese is walking a diplomatic tightrope as he mends fences with China, while drawing ever closer to the US, is putting it mildly.But he said he was heartened the new speaker was prioritising the key legislation for the remaining working weeks of the year.
"He still had, I think, a really good section of people that he met with," said Mr Courtney, who also co-chairs the bipartisan Friends of Australia Congressional Caucus.
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