On Thursday, the House passed legislation that would give Israel an extra $1 billion in military aid. The measure passed with an overwhelming majority and now moves to the Senate.
The bill passed 420-9-2, with Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN.), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), André Carson (D-IN), Marie Newman (D-IL), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Cori Bush (D-MO) and Chuy Garcia (D-IL) voting against it.
Reps. Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) voted “present.”
US lawmakers wanted to assure Israel that the money would be delivered after the funds were stripped from a stopgap funding bill earlier this week. “While this funding would ordinarily be included in a year-end spending package, we are advancing this legislation now to demonstrate Congress’ bipartisan commitment to Israel’s security,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), who introduced the bill on Wednesday.
Israel requested the additional amount in June, after its bombardment in Gaza in May, which killed over 250 Palestinians, including over 60 children. The aid is being presented as money to replenish the Iron Dome missile defense system. But when it was first reported, Israeli officials said they also need the money to purchase munitions, including precision-guided munitions for the air force.
The extra $1 billion is on top of the $3.8 billion Israel gets from the US each year. Out of the $3.8 billion, $500 million is allocated for the Iron Dome and other missile defense systems. The Iron Dome is a joint project between the Israeli defense firm Rafael and the US firm Raytheon, the former employer of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
My taxes at work. Wow! It’s great to be an American. Gee whiz!
Just don’t pay the feds in taxes. Buy everything Unilever mostly Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
That’s exactly what I’m going to do next year.
‘”…It’s great to be an American. ” But, it’s better to be an Israeli jew!
That was fast AIPAC called in all the markers.
I’d say very few markers. This was easy to predict. Hoyer promised the money before AIPAC even had to start making calls.
Yes, but Dunne is right; it’s the alacrity that speaks volumes, … together with the “yeas” from Ro Khanna, Primilla Jayapal, et. al.- demonstrating for the zillionth time that bourgeois politics is not an arena in which our efforts can have any positive effect.
“Markers?… We don need no stinkin’ markers!”
Just plain great. And now they’re saying on the news that unless they raise the debt ceiling, we seniors may not be getting our SS checks.
Amerikkka has gone completely insane, giving away billions and billions of our tax dollars to the shitty little terrorist state.
It’s more like the House of Israel than the House of Reps…!
bitter,aren’t we?
Why are you bitter?
More like ‘why isn’t he’. He lives here. He sees the crumbling infrastructure. Every dime should stay in this country.
If i had my way, there would be no foreign aid,save for very well monitored disaster aid and birth control. Meanwhile. 6 billion went for the Haitians at the border, and the “antiwar” gang is silent. Help our own people-those who worked for 50 years;those who fought our wars.
“Meanwhile. 6 billion went for the Haitians at the border, and the ‘antiwar’ gang is silent.”
What is this $6 billion you’re referring to? The cost of Border Patrol / ICE thugs to abduct them and put them in cages?
The cost of just opening the border and letting them in would be $0.00. In fact, since immigrants pay more taxes per capita than native Americans, consume fewer social welfare benefits per capita than native Americans, and commit fewer crimes per capita than native Americans, the US government would turn a profit on the deal.
To state that the cost of just opening the border and just letting them in is zero is delusional. The 19 year old woman with five small children and no mate is a burden.Sooner or later, billions of social benefits denied to our own citizens every day will be awarded by the poverty pimps to the new peoples-they will be legalized and vote.Within the “democratic party” social spending bill are enough give aways to raise deficits by 140 billion over 10 years-monies taken away from our own citizens.
It is apparent that you have no understanding of the criminal justice and public safety functions of INS.They not only prevent entry of foreign criminals, but remove the recently entered criminal from our society.These individuals prey on others and should be removed. In the 1984 “antiwar mind”, the criminal and murderer is heroic, and Law enforcement is universally tarred.
Immigration can represent a source of invigoration for our society-look at the demographic pickle Japan and the Russia are in. It is the right of the Federal government to determine who comes in. Those who benefit us should be admitted,those who will pull us down sent home pronto.
Immigrants pay more taxes per capita than native-born Americans. Immigrants consume fewer “social benefits” per capita than native-born Americans. And immigrants commit fewer crimes per capita than native-born Americans. It’s not that the cost of immigration freedom is zero, it’s that immigration freedom is profitable for everyone involved — except those who make a living sucking down tax dollars in the name of suppressing immigration freedom.
As for the federal government’s “rights,” it has none. What it has is powers. And according to the US Constitution, regulating immigration is not one of those powers.
The reason the “antiwar gang is silent” about 6 billion going to the Haitians is because the “antiwar gang” didn’t have an article about the 6 billion going to the Haitians to comment on. You don’t have a clue how the “antiwar gang” feels about the situation regarding the Haitians and once more you just make sh*t up.
The truth frightens you, that the antiwar crowd are exercising bile and hatred.
I don’t know how the “antiwar crowd” feels about the alleged 6 billion you mentioned. There isn’t an article covering that with a comment section. What part of that don’t you understand?
What a racket!!
Utterly disgusting!
It is clear who controls the US Congress. AIPAC rules!
It is hard to see how anybody can show respect for the spineless sycophants
in Congress who voted for this.
To which Palestine will counter with a barrage of $97.32 homemade rockets.
Better get ready to break out another billion Biden.
$10 million a day just isn’t enough taxpayer “aid” for Israel. Apparently, there is no more poverty, malnutrition, or injustice in the US. which might properly utilize taxpayer funds. And besides — American taxpayers have been thoroughly briefed on this aid and heartily endorsed even more than $10 million. Legislators are just doing what Americans want them to do. Sure.
This is wonderful-prevents world war 3.
You outdid yourself. Ridiculous.
Its called balance of power-basic high school concept.
No one billion and we have WW3? You are out of your god damn mind.