Posted on 02/03/2024 4:26:14 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
House Speaker Mike Johnson will introduce a bill to send $17.6 billion to Israel in emergency aid without corresponding spending cuts amid a fight over border security.
The first standalone Israel aid package voted on included IRS cuts, which of course received heavy backlash by Democrats and was rejected by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The new Israel funding bill will exclude the IRS cuts.
"While the Senate appears poised to finally release text of their supplemental package after months of behind closed doors negotiations, their leadership is aware that by failing to include the House in their negotiations, they have eliminated the ability for swift consideration of any legislation,” speaker Johnson wrote in a letter to colleagues.
"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. Next week, we will take up and pass a clean, standalone Israel supplemental package.”
Excerpt from Fox News
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I think we give plenty of money to Israel already. Why are we doing this when we have TRILLIONS of dollars of debt?
Insanity.
Israel is welcome to kill muslims all day long as far as I’m concerned, but they shouldn’t be asking for handouts to do it beyond what they already get.
Hmmm… and Bernie Sanders moves to strip any weapons purchases from the Israeli funding…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/progressive-dems-congress-move-block-funding-israeli-weapons
That is not realistic. It will never happen, even with Trump. Pick your battles...this is not one of them.
Not anymore...the left has imploded in the last 5 years. The left almost has completely disappeared.
One of the reasons, is the high birth rates for Orthodox Jews. Many people now classify Israel as a theocracy. If it isn’t, it will be soon.
Whatever. I wish you people would get upset over something big that is more meaningful such as the Dept of Ag having more employees than farmers in the US. This is where substantial savings occurs and it compounds year after year and not some war aide to Israel.
Focus on what has more impact and not some emotional temper tantrum over Israeli aid.
If anyone of us here use a mobile phone - we are a globalist. Because that phone is filled up with non-Amercian components.
Same goes for our US made cars... : filled with non-American components...
Thus... those who say they are non-globalists are simply hypocrites, they take full part of the globalist “system”
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Unbelievable ! You are the Meme !
I see both sides of the issue, and this point is the tie breaker.
No, that will be $17.6 billion in printed money.
I guess it is important to cut IRS funds needed to audit more high income filers. How else will they keep the money to support their favorite politicians.
I wonder in what part of the bill they send Ukraine boatloads of money.
Seriously? What about Israel wanting Western countries to take in Gazans?
“I’m sick of reading ignorant crap about our foreign policy.”
“We have morons here who run their mouths”
In my opinion you are the most ignorant loud blowhard on freerepublic.
I think it’s funny that you are complaining about ignorant people running their mouths, you absolutely spam this site with the most ignorant stuff over and over
What has Israel done for us lately?
I’m not being a smart ass; I really want to know. There are issues I pay more attention to than others, and Israel geopolitics isn’t at the to of my list.
From a religious perspective I’m 100% pro Israel. Maybe it isn’t possible to separate the two. I don’t know
Agreed.
I’m a taxpayer. Nobody asked me. If not for innumerable other pickings of my pocket I would not object to aid to Israel IF it needed any, which doesn’t seem to matter to the pocket pickers.
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YOU are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!!!!!!... if we brush this off as just " Israel's battle" that the USA should not be involved in, we will SOON find out that wasn't the case. It is OUR battle here too.. Remove Hamas, Islam extremests in Gaza and surrounding areas, you are in actuality removing them from the USA!!
Taking money from the UN and giving it to Israel because of what UN workers did to aid the Oct.7th attacks, exposed how evil the IN is, mabey even starts a real movement to get out of it.
This idea came from Matt Gaetz first.
The wall is already paid for. And, one has nothing to do with the other. The policy of open border is the problem. No matter how much is given for the border, Democrats/Marxists will simply take that money and spend it how they want like giving it directly to foreign countries saying they are trying to stop it at the source. Or, giving it to states that already have the illegal aliens (not migrants) to blow on them.
"Kill all the Christians and Jews"...and world domination.
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