On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled three foreign military aid bills for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, totaling over $95 billion in spending.
The three bills match roughly with the $95 billion foreign military aid bill that was passed by the Senate, although Israel will get a boost in military aid. Some of the economic aid for Ukraine is in the form of repayable loans. However, reports say Kyiv is not actually expected to pay it back and that the Biden administration will have the power to cancel the debt. The bill to fund the proxy war in Ukraine totals nearly $61 billion.
The Israel bill totals $26 billion, the majority of which will go toward supporting the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and replenishing air defenses following Iran’s reprisal attack. It includes $9 billion in humanitarian aid, which Democrats said was necessary for them to support Johnson’s effort.
Over $8 billion will go toward spending in the Asia Pacific to prepare for a future war with China, including a few billion in military aid for Taiwan. The US has consistently sold weapons to Taiwan since severing relations with Taipei in 1979 but began providing unprecedented military aid last year, a move that significantly raised tensions with China.
Johnson will release a fourth bill for so-called “national security” purposes. The bill is expected to include a TikTok ban over unfounded allegations that the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese spy tool. It is also expected to give the federal government the power to sell off frozen Russian assets to make more money available for Ukraine, which would amount to outright theft.
Johnson is pushing ahead with the plan despite threats from Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) to hold a vote to oust him. Some House Democrats have signaled they would support Johnson to prevent his ouster if he gave them what they wanted in the bills.
President Biden came out in support of Johnson’s effort and called for a quick vote. “The House must pass the package this week, and the Senate should quickly follow. I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world: We stand with our friends, and we won’t let Iran or Russia succeed,” Biden said.
1. $95 billion for foreign wars. How’s yer bridge in Baltimore doing ?
2. Seeing religious nutbags like Greene and Johnson at odds with each other is a small fraction of what the Christian Nationalist wet-dream American theocracy would look like. I have mentioned before – an “explicitly Christian” American government would see a dozen Christian variants each showing up in Washington expecting a lion’s share of the power and each decrying half the other contenders as “not True Christians ™”.
An American Civil War II (or III depending if you count the Marvel one from 2016) won’t be between Christians and non-Christians … it’ll be between the major denominations of Christians that quietly (for now) distrust or despise the others.
Reminds me of British History when Britain was repeatedly swiching between being Catholic and Protestant.
Queen Mary Killed Protestants
Queen Elizabeth Killed Catholics
Britain was then and still is a POS!
And that Anglesh shat on the Oyresh. So it goes, Boy-o.
Most folks in the US just want to keep alive,be safe,pay their bills,eat,sleep,have sex,watch TV and just enjoy life.
Good points. Although if they kill each other off, that might be a Good Thing.
Good thing?? Disgusting,,you would love the new movie “Civil War”, everyone kills everyone and you don’t even know who is who.
I will take a TRUE Christian over a atheist or Marxist, or commie any day of the week. Check your rabid hate Sapien, it reeks.
The inquisition was a Christian thing and pretty bloody, they were true Christians. Before that, there were the Crusades, bloody wars against Islam.
Not exactly peaceful endeavors.
TRUE Christians obey Christ. You are confusing religion with politics.
True Christians do confuse religion with politics, politicians use propaganda to manipulate the public mind. I am a secular humanist, an agnostic.
a secular humanist. really.
me? I’m just a girl.
“don’t let me have any rights”
A True Christian obeys the commandments of Christ. But I recognize that there are a lot of churches that don’t live up to that requirement.
Many people find comfort in religion and the community of believers. I understand and respect that.
Anyone who identifies as Christian is a “true Christian.”
No True Scotsman would disagree.
Sapien wasn’t talking about TRUE Christians.
The IDF is taking care of Christians. Blowing up Christian churches (Greek Orthodox), assaulting Armenian Christians in Jerusalem, where the Armenian church has been since the 4th Century.
Now Jayson, maybe have a grade-schooler proof-read your thoughts before you go ahead and demonstrate a clown-level of intellect.
You bleat on against “Marxist(s) (and) commie(s)” as if it’s 1964 and Communism was relevant at all; and as if you’re unaware they’re largely the same thing.
What rabid hate ? You’re projecting.
And atheists ? What of them / us ? Atheism is the answer to one question, a belief on god or gods. That being, “I don’t believe in a god or gods.” That’s all “atheist” tells you about a person.
Maybe try UNDERSTANDING someone to understand their perspective, instead of tossing around outdated and embarrassing slurs ?
Johnson is everything GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump is not. Trump is against spending on foolish foreign Wars. Trump is Pro-America First. Trump is for secure US borders and against illegal migration. I guess that’s why Johnson was given the job of Speaker by the DC Swamp. The Never Trumpers MUST get these foreign War bills passed before Trump is re-elected and can veto them.
Trump is for Israel. Which makes him a moron.
Very much for Israel. He moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. A week ago he said Israel should “finish the job” and stop notification of what Israel was doing (as if Israel killing off nearly 200 journalists was not enough). He is really not “America first”. He is Trump first.
Trump may well be for Israel, but he is on record as being for America First, unlike your average DC Swamp creature. Notice Trump has not run over to Israel after Oct 7 to pose for some cheap photo ops with Netanyahoo.
The Zionists can live with Trump too. They will decide who the next president will be.
He may be ON record as being for America First, but he HAS a record of being America Last, on everything from tariffs (increased taxes on American consumers to benefit his corporate buddies) to immigration (the Declaration of Independence cites policies like his as a reason for the revolution).
Trump is, always and every time, Trump First. Just like every other politician, only with a more WWE presentation style.
Trump can’t be trusted, he does not keep his word, he breaks multilateral agreements like the Obama Iran treaty. But he does have some charisma Biden has not.
Trump is for Trump first. Never forget that.
50/50, but he is all for Israel and has had a hard on for Iran,,FU## them both!!
Trump broke the multilateral agreement with Iran.
I have to keep reminding people that Biden, himself, tried to move the embassy in the 90s. Bush Sr was not having it.
Hillary too wanted to move the embassy, she couldn’t move it. It was not the right time.
Bringing jobs back to America,and beating off the mass invasion products of the irresponsibly breeding population bomb,avoiding conflict with Russia,is America first.
The bill from the MIC did not go down during the Trump years. Drone attacks increased during the Trump years, more than during the Obama years. Trump trashed the INF and Open Skies treaties which kept us safe. For good measure he trashed the JCPOA, and, had General Soleimani assassinated, on the sovereign soil of Iraq, while he was on a peace meeting with Iraq. Dark operations were ongoing in Africa.
Trump didn’t do shi# and if he is elected will still do nothing, he is Bozo facing off against a Perv. corrupt devil. What a choice.
Is this the best America has to offer?what a pity.
GOP presidential nominee, rapist, criminally indicted, failed businessman, etc. (There. I fixed it for you. You’re welcome.)
Trump is for a massive military and wants the world to be too afraid to fuck with the US.
. “But maybe our country would be better off if I actually had the nuclear codes because our enemies would be afraid, unlike they are now.”
Is that really what we want when we think “America First”.
Whose gonna pay the bloody billion dollar bill?! You? Me?
Ha, ha, ha! That is absolutely hilarious!
Billion dollar bill? If only.
Don’t worry, we’ll be paying for everything else anyway. $95 billion isn’t even a line item in the current deficit..
Just wait until we have to pay for the clearing of the rubble in Gaza , taking care of the bodies found, rebuilding (including great financing for beachfront mansions), helping Israel exploit the natural gas off the shores of Gaza. So much more U.S. tax money to b spent.
We should not pay for squat.
Well, at least the State of Israel is able to offer Universal Free healthcare to every Israeli citizen and permanent resident. We can all take comfort in that.
Maybe they’re “able to,” but they don’t. Israelis pay 3.1% of their income up to 60% of the prevailing market wage, and 5% of their income above that, to belong to one of four approved healthcare provision services. And 75% of Israelis pay for private plans above that to cover stuff the required plans don’t.
Where did you find that info?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Israel
Then they have the money to pay for their own wars.
Basic health care is covered at a reasonable price, call it a tax or payroll deduction, it is the same money.
People are free to insure for more luxury treatment like private hospital rooms as far as I know.
Americans pay 2.9%, split between employer and employee on every paycheck. And coverage is only universal for age 65 up.
Perhaps the $3.8 billion we send Israel every year helps pay for it. Israel makes enough money in trade, particularly in the sales of weapons and spy technology that are “battle tested”
Time to Oust him. There is only a Congressional antiwar left in Name Only.
It’s amusing to me that Tiktok is considered a “Chinese spy tool” – whereas Google and Facebook were both created with the assistance of CIA front companies. Those two and probably other social media companies were created to do the sort of social monitoring and control that the CIA used to do on the MSM but couldn’t do on the Internet prior to social media.
Rules for thee but not for me is a Western hallmark
It does not surprise me that efforts to force the sale of Tiktok would be combined with an effort to seize Russian assets. If these efforts succeed, they will reinforce the growing sense that the Biden administration is OK with stealing from other countries.
I can’t think of a better way to expedite efforts by other countries to move assets away from the reach of the US. Also, I won’t be surprised when other countries do the same to us.
Seizing Russian assets violates the 4th and 5th Amendments to our Constitution.
Rand Paul
@RandPaul
Speaker Johnson and the Uniparty are united behind their laundry list of bad ideas. From borrowing $95 billion from China to send it to other countries to killing a FISA warrant requirement — they’re ticking all the boxes to put America last.
Maybe for the USA to blow up right in their faces???? Guess maybe they need to hurry and dissolve the 2nd Amendment before the SHTF!
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
How do you know we’re getting screwed on the foreign aid bills?
Joe Biden has come out immediately in support of Speaker Johnson’s plan for $90+ billion for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
Reports say Schumer is gloating to his colleagues on the Senate floor that Democrats are getting everything they wanted.
The DC military industrial complex is overjoyed.
The border remains an afterthought.
What a disgrace.
More than a “disgrace”!
“The border remains an afterthought.”
Thank God for small favors.
Meanwhile, there’s 40 million illegal aliens, probably more, with massive increases in domestic violence and drug deaths while Fauci and Mayorkas are still free and alive to collect their royalties from the increased violence and drug deaths while congress, the judiciary, and the administrative state get to game the stock market making millions. Democracy and insider trading in action. Are you not entertained?
“”Speaker Johnson Unveils $95 Billion Foreign Military Aid Bills””
hey. remember a time when the rebublcans were the bad-guys ?
“Shocking” that Fox News and Newsmax have no interest in talking about the $95 Billion foreign Wars spending bills. Corporate news media loves War.
Fox really sucks since Tucker left!
Not “Putin-friendly” enough for you without Tucker?
Why are we giving any money to Israel at all
Because most Americans like Israel.
Most do not approve of the money going to Israel! Let the Israel dual citizens here in the USA support Israel, start with, ZUK, Bloomberg and Bezos…….etc….how about Biden, the self proclaimed Zionist. Cough it up Boyz!!
And how did you figure that?
How did you figure otherwise?
75 years of support, tells me that.
Right. Anyone we send “aid” to, Americans like. /s
Israel has receive the most amount of US aid dollars and for longest period of time than any other nation. That would not happen if Americans disliked Israel. It must disappoint you greatly that US aid is helping to kill some of your terrorists buddies.
No, it probably happens because there has been a disproportionate number of Zionists in the U.S. political class for years. AIPAC and the rest of the crew. Not antisemitic, just a fact.
“Israel has receive the most amount of US aid dollars and for longest period of time than any other nation.”
Wrong!
That would not happen if Congress actually represented their constituents instead of AIPAC.
And once more you prove how fucking stupid you really are.
Bribing Congress does not count as “support”.
Not anymore!
Yes, let’s give it to Russia and Hamas, Right?
We don’t need snide comments here, only facts and truth.
It is all you will get from the single patronage that is jake, Don Julio, Tim Burns. A broken record.
And how many times have you made that ridiculous claim that Jake, Don and Tim are one in the same. Talk about a broken record, that would be you.
Are you knew to this website? It is full of snide comments usually direct against the USA , Ukraine and Israel.
You won’t get much in the way of sensible commentary from Don Julio Biden, just about as brain dead as his leader.
How about no?
Because the donor class demands it
Because Israel and its “honey pot” ops towards American “leaders” has “our” government blackmailed into subservience! Most of this blackmail stems from pedophilia. The USA government is manned by child predators and Israel, like J. Edgar Hoover so many years ago, uses blackmail to maintain a certain “order”!
That was Jeffrey Epstein’s job!
Empire proxy.
Because they have bought most US politicians. Giving Israel money and ignoring their war crimes are just part of the deal.
This is why:https://michael-hudson.com/2024/04/gaza-the-strategic-imperative/
AIPAC, AIPAC and AIPAC.
One can thank Iran for its unsuccessful attack on Israel to get these bills moving.
One can thank AIPAC and the Warmongers in the Military Industrial Complex for owning the DC Swamp.
Tim, I doubt you have any idea about what is really going on. 🙂
And I can say same to you, What makes you think you know more? But I do know that the bills where stalled before Iran’s attack and now they are moving forward. If you know so much, tell me why they suddenly started to move?
“Biden came out in support of Johnson’s effort and called for a quick vote. ‘The House must pass the package this week.'”
Explaining the urgency of passing the entire package “this week,” Biden elaborated, ‘Because we have to,…because!…’
…reasoning echoed by National Security advisor Kirby who – pursing his lips in the pinched sphincter grimace that reportedly got him the job – ejaculated, ”uhe ”hime ihh…’ow!’…
…and by National Security advisor and apprentice bloodsucker Miller, who darted his rodent eyes, explaining, ‘Sniff! Sniff! I smell a Jew hater….’
Why does Taiwan need military aid? It is a well to do nation as far as I know and not involved in a war, at least not yet.
It’s not Taiwan that needs the military aid. It is US “defense” contractors who want that money.
Military aid works by the US government saying “here’s $50 million of US taxpayer money … but you have to spent it at Raytheon, Boeing, et al.”
US military aid is just a way of disguising corporate welfare.
Put it straight: money laundering.
You are so right.
A nice loop, I would say.
It also has the side effect of destabilizing the so-called world order.
That’s the plan. Destroy the world in order to save it and make it safe for Zionist agendas. Check out a map of the proposed greater Israel scheme which includes parts of other countries territories. The Zionists are being driven by greed and using metaphysical excuses for their plans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel
Or, really, ‘unwelfare’ for the victims of the MIC.
Now watch Mike Johnson explain that there’s no money for public infrastructure or other projects that benefit the American people and not just his precious donor class
Bingo! He wants to eviscerate Social Security. Medicare too.
What CNN calls “doing the right thing”: massively funding a proxy war on the far side of the world that we started, with no hope of victory only to delay Ukraine’s defeat. Definitely the right thing for arms corporations, until this aggression starts a nuclear war and there will be no fun places to spend their blood money.
A war that we, the U.S. of Atrocities, twice prevented its conclusion. Two years ago.
When we look at the US Congress and see what their values and priorities really are, it’s no surprise that the US government supports fascists and nazis all over the world.
Fuck Mike Johnson
MAGA World is not happy today!
$26 Billion for an ongoing genocide, $61 billion to ensure Ukrainians will continue to die in vain and $8 billion to our next Ukraine, Tawain. Sounds like something that should piss EVERYONE off.
It does, but there’s nothing the people can do about it. BDS isn’t enough. Congress is even trying to make pro-Palestnian slogans against the law. I guess we know who really runs Wash.
And who is that-speak your mind
Looks like Johnson will separate out each bill. I’m for Ukraine and Taiwan.
Definitely NOT for continued genocide in Gaza.
Colossal waste of money. And rich and connected Ukrainians are living high at the moment. Kiev Post reporting one in three public officials in an audit bought a new car since the war began while also having their savings increase (luxury car sales overall are at a record high). One in six a new home. But the rest forced into joining the front lines. It’s disgusting.
Post the article to which you refer. Also, do you believe corruption doesn’t exist everywhere?
Nice. You’re for proxy wars that use other nations as fodder and could bring on WW3. Are you sure you’re on the right website?
debtor US and its Globalist Warmongers are rubbing their hands with glee…with the GOP AIPAC and Raytheon Lackeys looting the US taxpayer and soon to be returning bodybags defending US soil and sovereignty…..will NOT see Mr Julio and his snappy uniform at the FEMA Camp…
The sooner the U.S. dollar loses its ‘World Reserve Currency’ status, the world will be much better off. No longer will the U.S. be able to use that privilege to start wars anywhere they please by printing up trillions of fiat dollars or they’ll be able to print them up, but other countries won’t be so willing to take them. BRICS is one solution, there will be others.
BRICS is a fantasy. Live with it.
Was he not Trump’s hand picked guy?
IT’S NOT ENOUGH!
All Americans should give at the very least another 10% of their net earnings to keep the weapons flowing along with the rivers of blood of Wash.’s victims around the world. /s
Rafah Operation Gets Washington’s Okay If No Counterstrikes on Iran:
https://www.nysun.com/artic…
Zionists are evil people who support genocide.
End all US aid to Israel.
Do you have any other dreams. The US support will Israel has been going on for 75 years and getting stronger.
“Among the allegations reviewed by the committee was the January 2021 arrest of a 15-year old boy by Israeli Border Police. The teen was held for five days at the Al-Mascobiyya detention center on charges that he had thrown stones and Molotov cocktails at security forces. Citing an allegation shared by a Palestinian child welfare nonprofit, forum officials said there was credible information the teen had been forced to confess after he was “subjected to both physical and sexual torture, including rape by an object.”
That’s what you support, pig.
Zionists are people,some good,some bad. Zionism is a national liberation movement.
Zionism is an ethno-nationalist cult like any other.
There’s some truth to what you say. I knew a lot of Peace Now, K Street Zionists who were not genocide supporters, but most Zionists support Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians. That makes them evil, like NAZIs.
“Zionism is a national liberation movement.” Nope. It’s a settler colonialist movement. It “liberated” Palestine in the same way I saw some BLM protesters in a video “liberating” a Mercedes from a showroom, straight through the window.
Israel is a racist pig nation.
“Among the allegations reviewed by the committee was the January 2021 arrest of a 15-year old boy by Israeli Border Police. The teen was held for five days at the Al-Mascobiyya detention center on charges that he had thrown stones and Molotov cocktails at security forces. Citing an allegation shared by a Palestinian child welfare nonprofit, forum officials said there was credible information the teen had been forced to confess after he was “subjected to both physical and sexual torture, including rape by an object.”
Israel is a racist pig nation. An enemy of human rights, free speech and democracy.
Two days after the State Department asked the Israeli government for information about what steps it had taken to hold the perpetrators accountable, Israeli police raided the nonprofit that had originally shared the allegation and later designated it a terrorist organization. The Israelis told State Department officials they had found no evidence of sexual assault or torture but reprimanded one of the teen’s interrogators for kicking a chair.
Death to Israel!
On 10 April, on Eid al-Fitr, the celebratory end of Ramadan, Israel killed three sons and four grandchildren of Hamas political bureau leader Ismail Haniyeh in an air strike on Gaza’s al-Shati camp. This adds yet more killings to the already staggering total, with Haniyeh himself having lost 60 family members to Israeli attacks.
Three days earlier, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Walid Daqqa, after 38 years of imprisonment, died from a lack of adequate medical care for bone marrow cancer. According to his lawyer, Daqqa had recently been subjected to torture and beatings.
Zionists are mass murderers.
BREAKING: TRUMP OPPOSES FOREIGN AID BILL!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Why isn’t Europe giving more money to help Ukraine? Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation! Why can’t Europe equalize or match the money put in by the United States of America in order to help a Country in desperate need? As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us! GET MOVING EUROPE! In addition, I am the only one who speaks for “ME” and, while it is a total mess caused by Crooked Joe Biden and the Incompetent Democrats, if I were President, this War would have never started!
Apr 18, 2024, 1:55 PM
Why can’t Europe equalize or match the money put in by the United States of America in order to help a Country in desperate need? As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us!
Sounds like he’s like antiwar.com and looking for matching funds.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG
Mike Johnson, the constitutional attorney, has turned into a mini tyrant.
He’s using backroom deals with Democrats to change the rules of Congress to continue clinging onto his power while passing Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer’s wishlist.
We need a new Speaker!!
Johnson Pulls Head from Ass, Acknowledges Axis of Evil
https://ukrainetoday.org/johnson-correctly-acknowledges-the-axis-of-evil/
US Globalism, Interventionism, Militarism…BIPARTISANLY!
Deaf ears today to JQAdams proudly saying we(the US) don’t go out to look for dragons to slay and Jefferson being against entangling alliances..An ugly and false Hobson’s Choice…ugh
So Johnson is just another ‘captured’ politician for AIPAC and the Globalists. I’m shocked.