Posted on 06/04/2026 2:54:23 AM PDT by RandFan
In one of the latest examples of political extremes converging over Israel, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie joined forces this week to challenge a provision expanding US-Israel defense cooperation.
Khanna, a progressive California Democrat, and Massie, a Kentucky Republican, both said over the weekend that they would seek to remove a provision from the House’s annual defense bill that would expand US-Israeli defense technology cooperation.
The section of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2027 that Khanna and Massie have taken aim at would require the Secretary of Defense to designate an “executive agent responsible for synchronizing cooperative efforts between the United States and Israel, including bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation.”
The cross-ideological alliance marked the latest instance of the progressive Democrat and libertarian Republican finding common cause on Israel-related foreign policy, after the pair previously teamed up to oppose US involvement in Israel’s war in Iran last year.
“If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the US and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor,” Massie, who lost his bid for reelection last month against a President Donald Trump-endorsed primary opponent, wrote in a post on X. “We are a sovereign country…”
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More likely they run together.
I hope Ro runs for president . Republicans will win 48 states
Which defense contractorleaned on them?
210 days.
I dont know about that but on their side AOC is quite prominent. Interestingly, both are in the House and have sought to raise their profile from there.
When are these anti-Israel clowns going go up against our syncing and synergy with NATO? Such as trying to make for common ammunition sizes.
Boy, you pick some losers.
Gee, two radical antisemites don’t like cooperation with Israel.
Shocker.
Now you see Masshole for exactly who he is.
Masshole running for president? You simply are intellectually bankrupt and could write articles for the onion.
Clearly you have no idea how things work in this country.
But hey, I state the obvious.
Congress needs a sore loser rule. Incumbents that have lost their primary are out. Period. The leader of that party picks thier temporary replacement.
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