Posted on 11/02/2023 4:01:37 PM PDT by Libloather
The House of Representatives approved sending $14.3 billion in federal aid dollars to Israel in a 226 to 196 vote on Thursday, with 12 Democrats joining Republicans to pass it.
Under the bill brought by House Republicans, that funding will be reallocated from money that was meant for the IRS in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Just two Republicans voted against the bill — Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Among the Democrats who voted in favor of it are Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., Jared Golden, D-Maine, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla., and Lois Frankel, D-Fla.
Republicans celebrated the bill’s passage, with Republican Policy Committee Chairman Gary Palmer, R-Ala., lauding the aid to a major ally and the defunding of Biden’s IRS.
"Israel has every right defend itself from the brutal attacks we have been witnessing over the past month," Palmer told Fox News Digital.
"With this piece of legislation, we are helping an ally in need while also cutting funding from Joe Biden’s weaponized IRS. These funds are better used supporting Israel than being used by IRS agents to audit middle class Americans," Palmer said.
Israel has been in open war with Hamas since last month when militants killed over a thousand Israelis in a surprise attack on villages throughout the southern part of the country.
Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, also highlighted the fact that more than two dozen of those slaughtered were also American citizens.
"Hamas terrorists senselessly murdered innocent Americans and Israelis with no remorse whatsoever. As our strongest ally in the Middle East, we must do everything in our power to support Israel and help them completely defeat and destroy Hamas," he told Fox News Digital of the bill’s passage.
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"It still mystifies me that at a moment when the world is in crisis, at a time when we need to help Israel respond to Hamas, the House GOP thought it was a good idea to tie Israel aid to a hard right proposal that will raise the deficit and is totally, totally partisan," Schumer said.
Chuckles should vote no.
The idea that the IRS will capture tax cheats....is totally a projection...just like climate change via man.
WTF is going on with MTG and Massie?
Yo Chuck. This passed with your precious bipartisan support.
Did anyone happen to ask him to explain how this would add to the deficit?
Senate is concerned.
“People let me tell you about my best friend...”
Excellent! Thank you Matt Gaetz and Speaker Johnson. Good riddens McCarthy!
They don't believe that U.S. tax dollars should go to a foreign nation that's already sitting on over $200 billion in reserves and has free healthcare for their citizens?
The passage even got the much vaunted bipartisan support!
IRS funding cuts actually make the deficit worse, so not much of an offset there.
I think they both oppose any money going to any foreign country. I tend to agree with them.
How?
Ah, there it is. Didn't take long for some simp to post it.
What has Israel done with the prior $3 billion a year we have given them?
Me too. We borrow money just to give it away to other countries.
I cannot imagine, but! am AMAZED that TWELVE Democrats voted with the Republicans!
Someone may be able to dispute it - but, I cannot remember a time before 2008 that more than One voted their own mind!
Now Chuckie is faced with a BIPARTISAN Israel funding bill.
He’ll change his tune, gradually at first.
Then suddenly.
It’s was explained profusely yesterday and today. The bill is 14.5 or so...and cutting agents means they will not catch tax cheats worth 26.5
Sounds like Israel should be giving money to the USA - not the other way around.
“I think they both oppose any money going to any foreign country. I tend to agree with them.”
I second that.
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