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House to vote on ‘clean, standalone’ Israel aid bill next week, Johnson announces
By Mychael Schnell – 02/03/24 3:07 PM ET
Story continues below advertisementThe House will vote on a “clean, standalone” Israel aid bill next week, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced Saturday, a reversal for the GOP conference after it approved a package for Tel Aviv last year that also included cuts to IRS funding.
The $17.6 billion Israel bill is poised to set up a showdown between the House and Senate: lawmakers in the upper chamber are preparing to vote on a national security supplemental next week that includes Israel aid and border security policy, which House GOP lawmakers have railed against.
“Given the Senate’s failure to move appropriate legislation in a timely fashion, and the perilous circumstances currently facing Israel, the House will continue to lead,” Johnson wrote in a letter to colleagues on Saturday. “Next week, we will take up and pass a clean, standalone Israel supplemental package.”
The news from Johnson comes three months after the House passed a $14.3 billion Israel aid package that included an equal amount in cuts to IRS funding approved as part of the Democrats’ marquee spending bill, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act. The measure came in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
The legislation cleared the House in a largely party-line 226-196 vote but was not taken up in the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) criticized it as a “flawed proposal.”
Republicans lauded the inclusion of the IRS cuts, arguing that it would help control deficit spending. The Congressional Budget Office, however, estimated that the cuts would add billions of dollars to the federal debt. Democrats, meanwhile, had railed against the GOP’s strategy, noting that emergency funding does not usually include offsets.
“Sadly, the Democrats have refused to consider that offset to support Israel,” Johnson said on Saturday of the initial Israel aid bill.
The House’s second go at sending aid to Tel Aviv comes as the Senate is preparing to move on a long-awaited national security supplemental that includes assistance for Israel, Ukraine and Indo-Pacific allies in addition to border security policy, which has been the subject of intense negotiations for months.
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9 Comments3 months agoGeneral rule … we don’t have the money …
… but we need to stand with our allies …
… especially because …
… “we” (the Deep State using our money) FUNDED the enemy …
Seriously – without Biden’s generosity and complicity – there is no way this would have happened.
… if the Mullahs in Iran, Hamas leadership in Qatar, and like actors in Lebanon and the West Bank …
… had to worry about how to finance their next meal …
… and how to not get a missile up their caboose while taking a nap …
Everyone in the ME on ALL sides could sleep at night …
G-d help us all …
3 months agoReply to danknightbarry and many dems and rinos before marionette joe funded our enemies
3 months agoWatch the suicidal Jewish and Christian pols who vote against Israel and understand why the U.S. is in such trouble against its enemies. Many are muzzies and commies and are paid for by them.
3 months agoAs a VOTING American, I APPLAUD EVERY Politician that is REQUIRING a ONE-VOTE-ONE ISSUE procedure WITH the VOTERS’ NAMES BEING RECORDED so Americans can SEE WHO is voting on EACH INDIVIDUAL BILL! OH YES! IT IS TIME TO REMOVE the ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL BILLS that were FLAUDULANTLY made into “law”!!
3 months agoSecond POINT! It IS TIME to STOP SUPPORTING COUNTRIES who DISTRUST or HATE OUR America!!
As Our Founding Fathers stated; DO NOT ALLOW INDIVIDUALS or ORGANIZATIONS into America which WILL/ARE DESTROYING AMERICA FROM THE INSIDE! HOLD EVERY politician to their SWORN OATH-OF-OFFICE to DEFEND America from ENEMIES — BOTH —- FOREIGN — AND — DOMESTIC!! At this time there ARE MANY enemies in America attempting a COUP against the American Citizens!!!3 months agoReply to LaddyboyAnd they are The Democrat Communist Criminal Terrorist Organization of America and they headed up by Schumer and Pelosi.
3 months agoThere has been anti Semitism for thousand s of years and it will never stop. So what else is new.
3 months agoReply to Stephen HonigWake up and smell the coffee.
God Bless Israel and all of those of the Jewish Faith.
As a point of information I’am a Christian.
M.A.G.A.3 months agoThe Democrat Communists are wanna be NAZIS.
God Bless Israel.
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