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House approves $14.5 billion in assistance for Israel as Biden vows to veto the GOP’s approach
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The House has approved a $14.5 billion in military aid package for Israel, but without humanitarian assistance for Gaza, in a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.
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The House has released text of the supplement Israel funding bill, appropriating $14.3 billion dollars to the Mideast nation. As Speaker Mike Johnson noted last week, the bill includes the same amount in spending cuts, rescinding $14.
A roughly $14 billion aid package for Israel, released by House Republicans, is at odds with the White House and the Senate, where leaders want money for Israel linked to money for Ukraine.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s $14.3 billion Israel aid package was heralded by conservatives for offsetting the funding from the IRS, but a report from the Congressional Budget Office says the offset really isn’t an offset.
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel claimed that cutting his agency's budget to finance military assistance to Israel will cost taxpayers dearly.On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) unveiled legislation to send $14.3 billion in military aid to Israel, a figure both Republicans and Democrats support.
The $14.3 billion bill would decouple aid for Israel from the 80-year-old president’s broader emergency funding request that includes billions for Ukraine.
The White House threatened to veto House Republicans' Israel aid bill, which seeks to provide funding to Israel as a stand-alone issue rather than combine it with aid for other nations, should it come to his desk for signature.
The legislation's IRS cuts are projected by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to add to the deficit by lowering tax revenues, contradicting the goal of offsetting the cost.
By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Republican-controlled House is once again targeting the Internal Revenue Service, this time voting to cut some of the agency’s funding to pay for a $14.3 billion emergency aid package for Israel.
The House has approved a $14.5 billion in military aid package for Israel, but without humanitarian assistance for Gaza, in a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.
The House approved a nearly $14.5 billion military aid package Thursday for Israel, a muscular U.S. response to the war with Hamas but also a partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson that poses a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden.
By Clare Foran and Morgan Rimmer, CNN The House passed a bill on Thursday to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel as it fights a war against Hamas – a move that sets up a clash with the Democratic-led Senate in an early leadership test for Speaker Mike Johnson.
The House is expected to vote on Thursday on a bill that would allocate $14.3 billion in aid to Israel – a move that sets up a clash with the Democrat-led Senate over proposed funding cuts as well as aid to Ukraine in an early leadership test for Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Republican-led House was set to approve a $14.3 billion measure for Israel’s war with Hamas, defying President Biden’s request to pair it with aid for Ukraine and setting up a collision with the Senate.
12 Democrats join nearly all Republicans in backing $14.5 billion proposal, which US president and Senate's Democratic majority oppose for not also including assistance to Ukraine
Speaker Mike Johnson's package required that the emergency aid be offset with cuts in government spending elsewhere, turning what would typically be a bipartisan vote into one dividing Democrats and Republicans.
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