Top House Democrats say they’ll oppose effort to cut $3.3 billion in aid to Israel
The top House Democrats on the Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees said Monday that they will oppose efforts led by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to cut the $3.3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel expected under the memorandum of understanding if and when they come to a vote on the House floor.
Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, told Jewish Insider he plans to oppose the effort to strip the aid out of the 2027 State Department Appropriations bill, calling it a “got-me vote the Republicans are trying to play with.”
“There’s just too many factors to say … ‘We’re taking away $3.3 billion,’” Meeks said, noting the U.S. provides military aid to other countries like Egypt and Jordan. “I don’t think that it would be the wise thing … not good policy.”
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, also told JI he plans to oppose the amendment to cut the $3.3 billion.
“I’m against that,” Smith said of the attempt to cut the $3.3 billion. “I don’t think it has support because it cuts off humanitarian aid, military aid — all aid for Israel. So I don’t think there’s support for it, but we’ll see.”
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Omg shocking the douche has taken almost 1M in genocide bucks:
Establishment Dems are just as bad as Republicans. Primary them out with progressive candidates and make actual change.
In general? Absolutely not.
On the West's favorite fascist apartheid state, cops, spying on people, the military, and other "authoritarian vs libertarian*" issues? Absolutely.
Hell yeah!
*as in being in favor of liberty, not as in "Republican who smokes weed“
Inaction when having power to act is just as bad as the shitty fascist who took advantage of it.
No it isn't.
Dereliction of duty leading to not preventing murder isn't murder.
It's still ABSOLUTELY grounds for losing the job and never regaining it though, don't get me wrong.
Schumer, Jeffries, et al are not the equivalent of Mussolini's blackshirts, but they ARE the equivalent of the 1920s Italian Liberals who did nothing to stop them.
That's funny I get shit all over when I point out that the Democratic party is controlled opposition in favor of the suits and yet, here it is.
Right there. All over the place.
We need to replace every single member of this shit show. Democrat. Republican. Doesn't matter.
The legislative branch is full of traitors. All of them must be replaced. That is the ONLY great replacement that is needed.
The establishment of both parties is extremely corrupt. People just haven’t figured that out yet because they are too busy fighting meaningless culture war bullshit.
Of course they will. Theyre owned by bibi. Fuck them too.
Greg Meek and Adam Smith's terms ends in 2027, but they have both been in office a long time so it doubt they are at risk of loosing their seats unfortunately
If their stance on funding a genocide is communicated well to the public, I don't think they could get re elected. People are really paying attention to this issue now.
We will have to root out incumbents like them to get rid of Zionists complete domination of our party. Lets just keep painting them as traitors who are disinterested in serving the Aemrican people (the truth) and see where we can get with it.
Just feed your own people, give them health care. What fraction of this continuous genocide fund would it cost?
Why does Israel need aid at all? Aren’t they pretty well off?
Our illiterate taxpayers need to fund their free health care and higher education, while we're going bankrupt over medical bills.
Why do leeches continue to suck blood when they're already fat?
They want those AIPAC checks to keep rolling in
About 40% of Americans do not have health insurance, or health insurance that isn't too expensive for them to use. That 3.3 billion dollars could insure a hell of a lot of Americans
Explain to me neo-liberals again how you're an acceptable choice still?
Shocked. Totally, thoroughly shocked.
Gregory Meeks – top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Basically said: “Nope, I’m voting against cutting the $3.3B to Israel.”
Adam Smith – top Democrat on House Armed Services. Also: “Nope.”
Thomas Massie (R-KY) — introduced the amendment to zero out the aid.
Greg Casar (D-TX) — one of the Democrats saying, “Actually… yeah, I’ll vote to cut it.”
Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) — at the time of the article she was basically in “lemme read the damn thing first” mode.
Someone kindly remind me again, what's the difference between Democrats and Republicans?
Establishment Democrats suck ass, but you cannot compare them to the unadulterated flood of fascism and corruption flowing from the Republican side. It's like comparing the diarrhea after participating in a ghost pepper eating challenge to literally falling into the lava of an active volcano.
The effects of one you can fix. Not the other.
Who do you think enabled and created the circumstances for that unadulterated flood of fascism? It doesn't form in a vacuum
Forty years of fascist white Christian nationalist rhetoric from the Republican party?
And a torrent of conservative untruthful media.
Demofuckingcrats
I disagree, I'd say genocide is fascist/volcano too. Its just a matter of whether you consider it to not be so bad because its not happening directly to you and your family. How are Dem Centrists planning to iterate on "fixing" murder? Especially when they have no interest at all in fixing it.
If Dem centrists were imagining a push to join the ICC, thatd be a sort of fix, but they will never do that. They just demand to be forgiven for what they did, in exchange for nothing at all, same as always with them.
The genocide thing is a wash because both Democrats and Republicans have a hard on for Israel. That said, Democrats were willing to fund Ukraine's efforts to defend itself while Republicans are full on in Putin's pocket. There is just no way to argue any thing close to an equilibrium between the two.
From what, a situation created by the US?
I get it. "I was just following the choices the system gave me" instead of "I was just following orders". But it amounts to the same active support for mass murder.
Social justice, some clean energy initiatives. That's about it.
they did a miserable job on social justice in Bidens 4 years. He single handedly killed the Defund & Reallocate movement and increased police funding instead.
One group is led by Chuck Schumer and one is not. Its really a difference in bank routing information for the "donors".
At their core nothing
I say we need a purple party whose only goal is to ghost Israel
Big tents are a tradeoff for sure. I suppose as long as we stick to a core platform that resonates with the American people and dont go soft on it to bring in one off contributors, we can do it.
fundamentally Non-negotiable though:
Protecting child rapists
Four years they had to do that after the first trump presidency and they....
Did nothing.
A headline that is not even worth an eyebrow raise
This is why we keep losing. We joined WWII, we took refugees, we subsidized them, and we protected them. It's time for Israel to vote for somebody who isn't a belligerent asshole or face our withdrawal