House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Sunday night he expects to put a bill on the floor next week that would provide new military aid to Ukraine.

The Senate passed a $95.3 billion bill for foreign aid in February, including $60 billion to support Ukraine in its war against Russia. But Johnson has not put the measure up for a vote in the House, where some Republicans firmly oppose additional Ukraine assistance.

In an interview with Fox News’ Trey Gowdy on Sunday, Johnson said he plans to introduce legislation after House members return from their district work period April 9 that would help Ukraine.

The speaker said the bill will have “some important innovations.”

It would redirect seized assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs to Ukraine, a move Johnson said would be “just pure poetry.”

Bipartisan bills were introduced in the House and Senate last June that would do just that, but both have been languishing. 

Johnson also said aid to Ukraine might come as a loan, an idea suggested in February by former President Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee this year. 

“NO MONEY IN THE FORM OF FOREIGN AID SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ANY COUNTRY UNLESS IT IS DONE AS A LOAN, NOT JUST A GIVEAWAY,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “IT CAN BE LOANED ON EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD TERMS, LIKE NO INTEREST AND AN UNLIMITED LIFE, BUT A LOAN NEVERTHELESS.”

Some of Trump's other congressional allies, like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, have championed the idea.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan in February panned the loan suggestion.

“That economic assistance is in the form of grants, because asking Ukraine to take on and shoulder a substantial amount of debt right now, as it’s fighting for its life, we don’t regard that as the best way forward,” he said.

Johnson also signaled a Republican bill would “unleash American energy.” 

“We want to have natural gas exports that will help unfund [Russian President] Vladimir Putin’s war effort there,” he said.

In January, Biden signed an executive order temporarily pausing pending decisions on the exports of liquefied natural gas to more than 20 countries while the Energy Department updates its underlying analyses for authorizations. Sixteen Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration to lift the pause.

“There’s a lot of things that we should do that make more sense and that I think we’ll have consensus around,” Johnson said. “We’re putting that product together, and we’ll be moving it right after the district work period.”

Johnson did not say if the legislation would also include funding for other national security initiatives, including Israel and Taiwan, which President Joe Biden has been requesting since October.

Ukraine has been an especially thorny issue for Johnson within his party because there is no consensus.

To date, the U.S. has committed about $72 billion to help Ukraine in the war and provide humanitarian assistance, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for months threatened to seek Johnson’s ouster if he gave Ukraine aid a floor vote. But, upset about a government spending package, Greene introduced her motion to remove Johnson last month, even before the speaker acted on Ukraine.

Johnson told Gowdy that he and “all of my other Republican colleagues recognize this is a distraction from our mission,” which he defined as growing the GOP’s majority in the House so Republicans “can save the republic.” Currently, the GOP can only lose one of its own votes to pass any legislation Democrats are unified in opposition against.

“So we don’t need any dissension right now,” he said.

The speaker said he has been texting with Greene and considers her a “friend.”

“She’s very frustrated about, for example, the last appropriations bills,” he said. “Guess what? So am I.”

Johnson said that because Republicans hold such a slim majority in the House and Democrats control the White House and Senate, they must settle for the “incremental wins that are still possible right now.”

“I can’t throw a Hail Mary pass on every single play,” he said. “It’s 3 yards and a cloud of dust, right? We’ve got to get the next first down, keep moving — and we’ll do that. And we can show the American people what we’re for.”