House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday that he will bring a bill to provide Israel with more military aid to the floor for a vote this week in response to Iran’s attack, which came in retaliation for Israel bombing Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
“House Republicans and the Republican Party understand the necessity of standing with Israel,” Johnson said in an interview with Fox News. “We’re going to try again this week, and the details of that package are being put together. Right now, we’re looking at the options and all these supplemental issues.”
It’s unclear if he plans to lump the Israeli aid in with spending for Ukraine. The House has yet to vote on a $95 billion foreign military aid bill that passed through the Senate and includes $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel, and a few billion for Taiwan and other spending in the Asia Pacific region.
Johnson previously pushed forward two standalone Israel aid bills to support the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, but they did not become law. One was for $14 billion that cut funding to the IRS to offset the cost, which passed the House but wasn’t taken up in the Senate. Another bill for $17.6 billion for Israel failed to pass a vote in the House that required a two-thirds majority.
The $17.6 billion failed because Democrats didn’t want to pass it without the Ukraine aid. In the wake of the Iranian retaliation against Israel, a standalone bill would likely find more support in Congress.
The additional military aid the US is looking to provide Israel is on top of the $3.8 billion it gets each year under a 10-year memorandum of understanding that was signed by the Obama administration.
Speaker Johnson is endorsing the Genocide of Palestinians and I hope he gets charged with War Crimes. Can not believe people in Louisiana will vote for him again.
I can.
Let’s not forget that there were also billions to “defend” Taiwan in previous omnibus bills as well as $billions for Ukraine and for Israel.
In the end it is the provocation of China by arming Taiwan that may bring us to Armageddon.
So many wars, so few dollars.
Biden’s gonna get us there soon enough and One Way Or Another. Spy, back me up on this. Didn’t Blondie predict that already in her song, One Way Or Another? …You know… The one where she says, “One Way Or Another… I’m gonna get you…“
yes that was Blondie.
Thank you, Spy! You are my 80s music expert!
No amounts of aid is gonna save Israel…!
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Kung-Fu Grip Jesus.
made in the U.S.A.
✝️🇵🇸✝️ Jesus.
Made in Palestine
Mike Johnson can’t seem to find a way to put Americans and America first. Both the Senate and Congress minus few a sound minds act with a complete disregard for what is best for America. Cleaning house was never so necessary as it is now…period
Time to flush the congress and presidency down the toilet and start all over.
They have it in their heads that “what’s beneficial to Israel is also beneficial to the US”. This type of thinking has been used by ADL/AIPAC types (or their equivalents in the past) to influence policies for a very long time.
In the wake of the Iranian retaliation against Israel
Thank you Dave Decamp.
More taxpayer money down the toilet to defend the most hostile people in the middle east, if not the planet.
Easy to see why Johnson is synonymous with DICK!
Johnson pushes spying on Americans and aid for Israeli genocide. Why do Americans vote for fascists like him?
well speaker Johnson did proclaim that he is “the next Moses”
And the last?