House approves $14.5 billion in military aid for Israel
House approves $14.5 billion in military aid for Israel
The House has approved a nearly $14.5 billion in military aid package for Israel, but without humanitarian assistance for Gaza. The partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson posed a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.
This bill is DOA according to the Senate.
"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has warned that the “stunningly unserious” bill has no chances in the Senate."
Imagine using that money for something important, like education, feeding and sheltering the homeless, or a whole lot of other GOOD things it could do. Eh, fuck it. We got people to kill.
Because fuck them kids! Wouldn't want to take the chance that kids won't starve to death as long as my enemy does, too!
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., said he was "so thankful there is no humanitarian aid," which he argued could fall into the hands of Hamas.
You know what is more likely to fall into the hands of Hamas and be exceedingly more useful? Weapons. We should, therefore, stop sending them to Israel.
Taps big brain: kids won't starve if there's no kids left.
We've heard from our constituents that they don't want us spending tax payer money to fund genocide...so we've decided we'll fund it via deficit spending after cutting taxes for our donors!
I'm trying to understand, are the house Republicans against aid to Israel or do they just not understand how negotiation works? Their position seems to be "I won't agree to this thing that I want unless you also agree to this other thing that I want." Do they not understand that attaching an unrelated toxic thing to something that would otherwise pass puts them in the position of functionally opposing the thing that there is broad agreement on?
Let's see if Schumer and McConnell can round up 80-85 votes for a Israel/Ukraine/Border funding bill and call Johnson's pathetic bluff. I'd certainly like to see a Republican vote against border security.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a nearly $14.5 billion military aid package Thursday for Israel, a muscular U.S. response to the war with Hamas but also a partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson that poses a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.
Johnson, R-La., said the Republican package would provide Israel with the assistance needed to defend itself, free hostages held by Hamas and eradicate the militant Palestinian group, accomplishing “all of this while we also work to ensure responsible spending and reduce the size of the federal government.”
To pay for the bill, House Republicans have attached provisions that would cut billions from the IRS that Democrats approved last year and Biden signed into law as a way to go after tax cheats.
As the floor debate got underway, Democrats pleaded for Republicans to restore the humanitarian aid Biden requested and decried the politicization of typically widely bipartisan Israel support.
“The Senate will not take up the House GOP’s deeply flawed proposal, and instead we’ll work on our own bipartisan emergency aid package” that includes money for Israel and Ukraine, as well as humanitarian assistance for Gaza and efforts to confront China.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is balancing the need to support his GOP allies in the House, while also fighting to keep the aid package more in line with Biden’s broader request, believing all the issues are linked and demand U.S. attention.
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