The White House has conveyed to members of Congress that it will request an emergency supplemental funding package that will include military aid for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, as well as additional funding for border security, NBC News reported on Wednesday.
Administration officials said the request will also include funds to manufacture weapons to replace what’s being sent overseas as the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel and the US military buildup aimed at China are a boon for US arms makers.
The Washington Post first reported on Monday that the White House planned to link aid for Ukraine and Israel in an effort to “jam the far right,” referring to House Republicans who are against the proxy war in Ukraine but are staunch Israel supporters. Many Republicans who oppose funding Ukraine do favor sending weapons to Taiwan, which began receiving unprecedented military aid from the US this year.
Some Republicans have expressed opposition to linking Ukraine and Israel, even those who support sending weapons to both countries. “I support both, but I think it’d be a mistake to bundle the two,” said Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), according to POLITICO. “But it sounds like the administration wants to put the two together. I think that’d be a mistake.”
The size of the supplemental package President Biden will request is unclear. He previously asked for an additional $24 billion to fund the Ukraine war, but it was never approved by Congress. According to The Telegraph, the administration has been discussing the idea of a full-year spending package for Ukraine that could be as large as $100 billion, an idea popular among hawks in the Senate.
The House won’t take up any new legislation until it gets a new speaker, which appears imminent. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) won the GOP nomination on Wednesday. A full House vote to confirm Scalise is expected to happen soon, but it’s unclear exactly when.
This is getting so exhausting.
God, what a jackass. Words fail.
He is like the mouse in Disneys soursers apprentice. He just can’t stop.The old saying “we serve at the pleasure of the President” well I have a different take. Most all of our citizens are suffering at the will and stupidity of this senile clown.
He’s not in charge. Others are running the show from behind the curtain. I’d like to know who they are and what their agenda is. Historians may help us out with that someday.
But he is a willing participant.
All those three investments are counterproductive. Muslim world will be more anti-American. Russia, after this war, will be bigger and stronger. China will be more militarized and the arm race with China is too expensive even for US.
A better argument to support this could not be made…
Hurry up and kill yourself, Amerika!
Yep, that’s what joe b. is really saying.
On the contrary they are very productive for the donor class whom the DC politicians and the unelected palace enuchs in the various federal agencies serve.
“they are very productive for the donor class” which proves that “the donor class” is enemy of American working class.
“We’re on the road to nowhere”
On the contrary, The Empire is drowning in debt signifying the end the Wall St.-Washington warfare state and its decadent coastal culture.
“Come on inside
Takin’ that ride to nowhere
We’ll take that ride
I’m feelin’ okay this mornin’
And you know
We’re on a road to paradise
Here we go, here we go” …
Sounds like fentanal more than rum
More like the road to worthless dollars…!!!!!
…… are a boon for US arms makers
proves who is really in charge of the US doesn’t it
The Merchants of Death and their cultus of slaughter and destruction.
Ghouls;
Evil spirits or phantoms who rob graves and feed on dead bodies.
The joke is their supper expensive crap doesn’t even work.
It works perfectly: It’s expensive, using it destroys it, replacements are sold.
And now Zelensky wants to visit Israel “in a show of support”. Seriously, this guy is so effing disgusting. He tries to insert himself in everything everywhere. He wants to speak at sports games, the Oscars, the Eurovision Song Contest, the Hungarian parliament, the Polish parliament, any parliament anywhere. War somewhere? He wants to speak. And its “Zelenskyy” now to Ukrainify the name, apparently.
If he’d speak in Israel you can imagine how Gaza would be like the despicable Donbass … no, I mean, Hamas would be like the invading Russians. Israel’s threat is “existential” just like Ukraine’s, we’re both fighting for democracy, we’re both small countries against terrorists. Both defending Europe in the east against authoritarianism and radical extremists. Both innocent.
Why, the speech practically writes itself.
Beautiful, the Zelig of bourgeois pol-scum.
Maybe they should bring to Jerusalem also some veterans of Waffen-SS from Canada for the demonstration of solidarity with their noble course.
Then there’s several African countries, Okinawa, Philippians, Guyana, Ecuador, and Haiti to pump up militarily and boost toward democracy.
A trifecta… a military spending hat trick.
Aid for Israel greases the skids for every other conflict
the administration wants to put the two together. I think that’d be a mistake.
A mistake no matter which way you slice it.
Biden was in the White House when Netanyahu screwed President Obama’s opening to Iran by his incessant ranting that the Ayatollah’s were about to have an atomic bomb tomorrow. If Biden does not or does not want to remember that Netanyahu does not care about us but only about his reproduction of King David’s Israel, we are in deep doo doo.
“The House won’t take up any new legislation until it gets a new speaker…A full House vote to confirm Scalise is expected to happen soon, but it’s unclear exactly when.”
As link notes: the vote is now delayed because, despite nomination, the S camp is still three votes short of the 217 needed in the election vote – so obviously they’re trying to get those votes.
Q is will the votes come at a price – like a deal on Ukraine aid, the main S vs Jordan issue.
FOLLOW-UP: Republican Party couldn’t get the votes to elect Scalise House speaker – so S. dropped out…further delaying legislation, including military aid, despite Republicans across board supporting unconditional military aid to Israel:
“After being narrowly nominated for speaker…Scalise… found himself far from the 217 votes needed to be elected…Many supporters of his challenger…Jordan…the right-wing Republican endorsed by…Trump, refused to switch their allegiance.
“With no clear end in sight to the G.O.P. infighting that has left one chamber of Congress paralyzed.”
(NYT, “Scalise Withdraws as Speaker Candidate, Leaving G.O.P. in Chaos”)
Good to see the federal government looking out for pretty much everyone except the American people who elected them.
BUT did the “American People” really elect them?
2020 was record setting – nearly $14B spent for the Presidential + hundreds of congressional seats; over $6B spent on the presidential alone. Of that $14B – 20% came from the everyday Americans. Thanks to Citizens United the 80% comes from corporations and wealthy donors. Studies have shown the majority of legislation passed into law are what benefits that 80%; occasionally the 20% also benefit from the same laws – coincidentally.
So you see, the federal government really is looking out for the people who elected them 🙂
Now, if we could just fund the other side too, the bosses would be really happy. Let’s see, a few billion for Russia, China, and Hamas added to the package, you know, to ensure sustainability …
We do fund both sides – just not necessarily at the same time. We funded Al-Qaeda fighting the Russians, killed after the WTC bombing/9/11, now fund in Syria, and some in Ukraine. We killed Nazis in WW2, after set some Ukrainian Nazis up as Soviet spies and others we brought to the west.
As long as it is good for business, why not?
Is it good for business though? When an enterprise is in a competitive market and proves untrustworthy customers take their business elsewhere. And that Virginia is why we’re planning war with Russia and China 🙂
Yep war is definitely good for US war mongers , the yanks would fund a war between ant colonies .
Nah, there isn’t enough profit in insect-sized cruise missiles.
Amazing, government is all about scandals, about money, power, and sex and that is all that concerns our elected officials. Our government consists of scumbags, when it really counts they are not to be seen. Despicable, a sign of a dying democracy.
Oh its dead allright,its just that the majority of passive,ignorant,uniformed citizens have not realized it yet. They are still clinging to the fantasy of their illusions.
That is what Biden wants.
Agreeing to it is what cost the last Speaker his job.
It is not reasonable to imagine that the next Speaker will get his job by promising to do exactly what got the last guy fired.
If Scalise gets the job, it will be with the understanding, “I am not the last guy and I won’t do that.” If he can’t promise that, then he won’t get the last few votes he needs, the votes that fired the last guy.
We could see a re-run of those Presidential Conventions of the past, in which a deadlock went on for many ballots, followed by a surprise compromise candidate who did make the key promises needed.
Judging by events in Ukraine that war is drawing to and end.
If one were to judge by Western media coverage, one might conclude that it ended last Saturday. This latest explosion in the long-running Israel-Palestine mess brings certain benefits to those who might not want Western readers/viewers to focus too closely on the aftermath of the Great
SpringSummer Offensive.H ow bout HUMANIATARIAN aid??
Biden does not know the meaning of the word HUMANITARIAN, that is true for the people he picked for his administration, they are Christians and Jews, not humanitarians.
I am deeply ashamed of my government the criminal Biden gang and congress and the American people.
Biden and Netanyahu are on a level with Hitler. Bombing indiscriminately the civilian population, including women and children in Gaza like fish in a fish bowl is on a level of concentration camps.
I can’t stop it, but as a citizen I want to voice my opposition to the criminal Biden administration, every single member .I would take my vote back if I only could.
Tell me how the crooked Biden administration is different then Trumps or past governments.
The current crop is stoking hate openly, they hide nothing and Biden trumps it, he is a pathological liar and even said he saw photos of the propaganda piece of the babies killed by Hamas that never even happened, the President of the UNITED STATES. I know he is crazy and a liar, but demented and a pathological liar beats all. And they show all the horror of bombing civilians in Gaza as if bombing civilian targets and killing civilians is the normal thing to do. But God forbid if a IDF soldier gets killed. It is always a question of being at the right place at the right time, Biden happens to be it. It would be interesting to know how Trump would have handled it with neocons in charge. Trump did nothing that conflicted with Israeli demands that I know of. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem, Hillary did not have that chance, the annexation of the Golan Heights, all to please the Israelis.
An interesting opinion article from an Israeli.
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You are being too charitable. He is actually worse then you said. there is an excellant chance that he will be the end of us.
Antony Blinken starting his press conference with Netanyahu in Israel:
“I come before you, not only as the United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew.”
Yeah, this guy is going to be totally unbiased, and totally focused on being the Secretary of State for the U.S., where the taxpayers are forced to pay for him.