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.”
Someone kindly remind me again, what’s the difference between Democrats and Republicans?
At their core nothing
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.
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:
One group is led by Chuck Schumer and one is not. Its really a difference in bank routing information for the “donors”.
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.
Protecting child rapists
Four years they had to do that after the first trump presidency and they…
Did nothing.