Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday that a stand-alone bill to provide Israel with billions more in military aid will be brought to the House floor this week instead of President Biden’s $105 billion request that also includes spending for Ukraine, Taiwan, and the border.
“We’re going to move a stand-alone Israel funding bill this week in the House. I know our colleagues, our Republican colleagues in the Senate, have a similar measure,” Johnson said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” according to The Hill.
A group of Senate Republicans introduced a bill to provide Israel with $14.3 billion in additional military aid, the same amount for Israel that’s in Biden’s request. The $14.3 billion is on top of the $3.8 billion that Israel receives from the US each year. Johnson, an evangelical Christian, has expressed support for continuing the proxy war in Ukraine but says Israel is the priority.
“We believe that that is a pressing and urgent need. There are lots of things going on around the world that we have to address,” Johnson said. “And we will. But, right now, what’s happening in Israel takes the immediate attention. And I think we have got to separate that and get it through.”
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has also said a stand-alone Israel bill will be coming this week. “I think what we’re going to do is really because the need is so urgent now in Israel, is to start with Israel first and then deal with the other.”
Johnson has previously voted against Ukraine aid packages but said in an interview this past Thursday night that he believes the US should keep supporting the war. “Now we can’t allow Vladimir Putin to prevail in Ukraine because I don’t believe it would stop there,” he said.
Johnson also tied together the wars in Gaza, Ukraine, and the new Cold War with China. “Hamas and Hezbollah are proxies of Iran, and they’re tied in now with Russia and China. I mean, it is a new axis of evil. That’s how we see it,” he said.
I can imagine the pressure this is getting, AIPAC and Congressional funding for Israel are the pillars of their existence.
It’s vital that we continue to fund the Israeli extinction of Gazan children!
Those ‘little animals’ become ‘big animals’ in the policy of Tel Aviv.
Meanwhile Hamas indoctrinates them in hate and violence,so they throw their lives away.
Live in a concentration camp for few decades and you’ll grow to hate your camp guards too.
People who have no lives under Zionist Israel, so why not throw them away?
Lurid BS
By the time it is voted on, it won’t be 14B it will be a at least 20B
“ but says Israel is the priority.”
Before even the US and its people?
Israel is the core of the Empire, the rest the periphery.
Israel is a tiny country with a tiny land mass and population. US corporations can go pretty much where they want-they might be part of some empire.
Israel has priority access to US Treasury, US Military, US Congress & Pres., controls Main Stream Media & Pop Culture, Finance Industry, Universities. and even through ADL, ‘free speech’ and dictates a litmus test for state contracts and jobs.
These are the same republicans who claim nonstop to be fiscally conservatives and always concerned about growing deficits and uncontrolled spending. They are same ones who can’t find the money to spend on domestic programs.
Anybody that can’t see the BS and hypocrisy is really out of it, and millions of Americans are really out of it. It’s a uni-party that is spending our taxes on bloodshed, more and more every day.
This guy is showing that the “freedom caucus” that claims to put America first is full of shit and always has been. MAGA my ass. And as a bonus he thinks Jesus is Rambo.
It’s the End Times. Must be financed or Baby Jesus won’t be able to afford the ticket.
Johnson is another gentile Zio fanatic like Spence and Fat Man in the Trump administration. These fools think they are players in setting the stage for the second coming. They also believe God will bless the USA if they give Israel everything they ask for. I guess God blessed the 5,000 who died on 911? Bin Laden said the reason for the attack was unconditional support for Israel. And, I think this just really cooks down to more MIC funding coming into Wash. and all the religious BS is just justification and a way to satisfy the other Xtian Zionists in the USA.
Bin Laden was upset because there were US troops in Saudi Arabia.
And the aid to Zionists in Israel. Wash. is for sale to the highest bidder and AIPAC bid the highest. War anywhere is good for Wash. and the war industry. Israel is good for war because it’s in the middle east where instability leads to wars throughout human history.
I am interested once the list of
traitorsyes-votes comes out. I am thinking a lot of them are going to be people who claim they are “America First”, who actually are “America first after Israel”, and “Freedom of Speech” champions who are actually are “Freedom of Speech I agree with” promoters.America first after Israel and Ukraine.
Israeli culture magazine Mekovit published on 28 October a leaked document issued by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence recommending the occupation of Gaza and total transfer of its 2.3 million inhabitants to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The document, issued on 13 October, identifies a plan to transfer all residents of the Gaza Strip to North Sinai as the preferred option among three alternatives regarding the future of the Palestinians in Gaza at the end of the current war between Israel and the Hamas-led Palestinian resistance.
The document recommends that Israel evacuate the Gazan population to Sinai during the war, establish tent cities and new cities in northern Sinai to accommodate the deported population, and then create a closed security zone stretching several kilometers inside Egypt. The deported Palestinians would not be allowed to return to any areas near the Israeli border.
Wash. is on board with that plan or they would condemn it as ethnic cleansing.
World War is inevitable, the crimes of the United States of Atrocities are beyond evil. Massive world depopulation is coming.