Well, remember they’re playing chess here so let’s not pretend our Speaker is giving away the farm. He stated right in the article OP linked that new funding to Ukraine needs to be tied to securing our own borders. This puts the demonrats into another corner. From the article :

“… Johnson went on to claim that his GOP will not approve additional Ukraine funding unless it comes in tangent with funding to secure America’s own border, but the GOP’s track record on this promise and others like it is not very good.

“What we’ve said is that if there is to be additional assistance to Ukraine, which most members of Congress believe is important, we have to also work in changing our own border policy and so there’s been a lot of thoughtful negotiation ongoing with that,” said Johnson, adding that he believes that the Senate, which has been vehemently pro-Ukraine and pro-war, agrees with him. …”

Well, remember they’re playing chess here so let’s not pretend our Speaker is giving away the farm. He stated right in the (left-leaning) article OP linked that new funding to Ukraine needs to be tied to securing our own borders. This puts the demonrats into another corner. From the article :

“… Johnson went on to claim that his GOP will not approve additional Ukraine funding unless it comes in tangent with funding to secure America’s own border, but the GOP’s track record on this promise and others like it is not very good.

“What we’ve said is that if there is to be additional assistance to Ukraine, which most members of Congress believe is important, we have to also work in changing our own border policy and so there’s been a lot of thoughtful negotiation ongoing with that,” said Johnson, adding that he believes that the Senate, which has been vehemently pro-Ukraine and pro-war, agrees with him. …”