Topline
The House passed a $14.3 cardinal assistance package for Israel connected Thursday evening, though nan Republican-led measure will apt not past nan Democratic-controlled Senate arsenic it proposes offsetting nan assistance by cutting money from nan Internal Revenue Service.
A measure passed successful nan GOP-led House that would springiness assistance to Israel and trim IRS backing will now spell to ... [+] nan Democratic-led Senate, wherever activity has been vocally opposed to it. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Getty ImagesKey Facts
The measure passed 226 to 196, pinch 2 Republicans opposing it and 12 Democrats supporting it.
The assistance package for Israel is nan first awesome portion of authorities passed nether recently elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has said getting Israel assistance is simply a “pressing and urgent need,” but projected paying for nan assistance pinch immoderate of nan $80 cardinal successful accrued backing earmarked for nan IRS done President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act.
Senate Democrats person said they won’t support nan measure erstwhile it arrives successful nan chamber, pinch Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) saying Wednesday it was “a wholly unserious and woefully inadequate package” arsenic it near retired assistance to Ukraine aliases nan Indo-Pacific and humanitarian assistance to Gaza, according to CBS.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) besides said he wouldn’t support nan measure and has alternatively called for a package that would springiness assistance to Ukraine and Israel.
Even if nan measure survived nan Senate, nan White House has said Biden would veto a measure that arrived connected his table and only provided assistance to Israel alternatively than Israel and Ukraine.
Big Number
$26.8 billion. That’s really overmuch would beryllium added to nan country’s shortage if nan assistance package projected by Republicans successful nan House passes, according to nan nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Key Background
Congress has been moving connected an assistance package since Biden asked it to walk $105 cardinal successful emergency funding—including astir $14 cardinal for subject support to Israel and $61 cardinal for assistance successful Ukraine—about 2 weeks ago. Some House Republicans are skeptical of backing Ukraine’s warfare efforts, which group nan projected measure up arsenic a constituent of hostility betwixt House and Senate Republicans, who mostly support much backing for Ukraine. The measure besides received disapproval arsenic it breaks protocol by proposing nan costs of assistance beryllium offset pinch different cuts erstwhile Congress doesn’t usually trim backing elsewhere to make room for emergency aid.
Further Reading
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