House Republicans on Thursday approved a $14.3 billion aid package for Israel, setting the stage for a fierce showdown with the Democrats in the Senate and White House who have savaged the GOP bill…
And it provided a preview of how Johnson — the mild-mannered Louisiana lawmaker who skyrocketed to the Speakership amid GOP chaos — plans to steer the House through a number of legislative lifts in the weeks and months to come.
Johnson’s decision to isolate the Israel funding — and marry it to IRS cuts — was an olive branch to conservatives wary of deficits and overseas spending, and it united virtually all of his conference.
From the White House, President Biden is pushing a much larger $106 billion emergency aid package that features funding for Israel, Ukraine, border security and allies in the Indo-Pacific.
House Republicans’ measure pairs the $14.3 billion in foreign aid with the same amount in cuts to IRS funding that was approved in the Democrats’ marquee spending bill — dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act — last year.
Hamas’s attack on Israel last month has highlighted the long-established Democratic divisions over Middle East policy, pitting pro-Israel lawmakers, who are supportive of the nation’s efforts to defend itself, against pro-Palestinian liberals, who have charged Israeli leaders with human rights abuses and war crimes in Gaza.
Johnson, for his part, rejected the notion that he tied the Israel aid to spending cuts as a political play, insisting that the move was intended to “get back to the principle of fiscal responsibility.”
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And it provided a preview of how Johnson — the mild-mannered Louisiana lawmaker who skyrocketed to the Speakership amid GOP chaos — plans to steer the House through a number of legislative lifts in the weeks and months to come.
Johnson’s decision to isolate the Israel funding — and marry it to IRS cuts — was an olive branch to conservatives wary of deficits and overseas spending, and it united virtually all of his conference.
From the White House, President Biden is pushing a much larger $106 billion emergency aid package that features funding for Israel, Ukraine, border security and allies in the Indo-Pacific.
House Republicans’ measure pairs the $14.3 billion in foreign aid with the same amount in cuts to IRS funding that was approved in the Democrats’ marquee spending bill — dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act — last year.
Hamas’s attack on Israel last month has highlighted the long-established Democratic divisions over Middle East policy, pitting pro-Israel lawmakers, who are supportive of the nation’s efforts to defend itself, against pro-Palestinian liberals, who have charged Israeli leaders with human rights abuses and war crimes in Gaza.
Johnson, for his part, rejected the notion that he tied the Israel aid to spending cuts as a political play, insisting that the move was intended to “get back to the principle of fiscal responsibility.”
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