cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33488629
By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 20:59 BSTHardline America Firster and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to strip Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.
The House of Representatives, however, rejected in a 422-6 vote on Thursday, to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program - an agreement through which the US provides Israel with $500m to boost its missile programmes.
It is a separate allocation from the $3.3bn the US sends Israel as “security assistance” every year.
Imagine what 3.3bn would do for education in the United States? Fuck Iseral’s “security”, they can take care of themselves.
Israel is currently secure enough to be able to commit a genocide while also starting conflicts with neighboring countries. They’re acting like they can take care of things on their own, so let them.
Budgeting around mom’s credit card is a nad idea unless you are Israel.
My husband’s theory is that Epstein was a mossad asset so it’s more like don’t spend moms credit card unless you found her cp stash.
It would do something the GOP doesn’t like. Create people who understand science and reasoning, which is bad for the base.
Ambitious! It would actually go to military industrial contracts more directly (maybe in R&D for new weapons) so as “not to disrupt the economy”.
And they’d be mostly fine with it.
422 to 6 say,“keep imagining”.
How AOC vote?
She voted on the side of Iseral sadly.
That’s the problem you see. If they can take care of themselves they might figure out how to take care of us in the future should they need to
I agree Israel should not be subsidized by the states but 3.3 billion is about ten dollars per American.
If that money were all distributed to our education system, it would only really go to the children of the US, so it makes less sense to evaluate that money on a per-american basis.
That money would also be going to institutions as opposed to the students, so a more practical evaluation would be to see what amounts would go to each school.
At the end of the day, though, we know that $3.3bn isn’t going to education - not even a bit.
Even if it’s say twenty percent of Americans being school aged so it actually being fifty dollars per student I don’t see how’s that’s going to change the education system.
Again, it’s 50 dollars per student - given to the school as a subsidy. The average middle school has something around 500-600 students, so that’s between $25,000 to $30,000 per school. That’s not huge but it’s not negligible either.
Because you don’t understand how far a dollar can go when you invest it in productive programs.
No I don’t so can you explain it to me?
Someone else already mentioned that it’s more than half the current budget for feeding students so that could be expanded by a lot, but it’s easily enough for schools to hire a part time therapist or nurse or to get new textbooks for a subject or two.
Of which, roughly speaking about 23% are under 18 and school-aged if census.gov is to be trusted
Around $40 per student could still do an incredible amount of good across our national school system. A given school’s graduating class might range anywhere from 50-2,000 students and you’ll have 3-4 of those per school. That’s potentially $320,000 for a single large school by this napkin math assuming those funds are distributed perfectly evenly according to student population. If put to more strategic use this could be an incredible boon to lower income schools in many, many areas.
At the same time, we spend $5.2 billion a year to provide 2.4 billion breakfasts in over 90,000 schools and residential child care institutions. $3.3 million more could feed a lot of hungry kids.
3.3 billion.
Right, that’s what I meant
That’s just for a single military program. We also give $18 Billion a year to Israel and have given something like $200 Billion over the last 70 years to Israel.