* Ukraine Aid Could Lead to a Reckoning for Mike Johnson House speaker faces flak from hard-right members of his own party, who may try to oust him – Jenn Gidman, Newser.com

* Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated a top priority is to “take the necessary steps” on funding for Ukraine in its two-year-plus war with Russia, reports the Guardian.

* CNN calls it the “most significant threat to his speakership to date,” while the Hill deems it Johnson’s “moment of truth.

* California Sheriff Torches Newsom, Says State’s Soft-On-Crime Ballot Measure ‘Lied To’ Voters – Hank Berrien, DailyWire.com

* That means in more than 90% of reported cases of theft, no one is ever arrested,” – KQED.

* Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco spoke of his efforts to support the Homelessness, Drug Addiction, and Theft Reduction Act, telling Fox News, “California, we’re in a very trying time right now when it comes to public safety and for the most part, from a law enforcement perspective, we can say that, we can attribute the majority of our issues that we are having, or at least, there’s some type of a correlation to them, to the passage of Prop 47.”

* “Quite frankly, we were lied to and misled by our state, in that the name and the description on the ballot was not something that we were getting,” Bianco continued. “We voted for a proposition that was named the Safe Schools and the Safe Streets Initiative and it contained absolutely nothing to do with safe streets or safe schools, and it was everything that is bad about public safety.

* Trump Fundraiser Secures Historic $50.5M for 2024 War Chest!

* Joe and Democrats brought in more than $90M in March and have more than double what Trump and Republicans have on hand.

Trump and the GOP announced they raised more than $65.6M in March and closed out the month with $93.1M.

* Biden and the Democrats announced they took in more than $90M last month and had $192M+ on hand.

* “Exploding the left’s ‘Big Lie’ about Trump and the GOP: As usual, the truth is 180 degrees opposite to what progressive academics and politicians claim” – Dinesh D’Souza.