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.”
Establishment Dems are just as bad as Republicans. Primary them out with progressive candidates and make actual change.
In general? Absolutely not.
On the West’s favorite fascist apartheid state, cops, spying on people, the military, and other “authoritarian vs libertarian*” issues? Absolutely.
Hell yeah!
*as in being in favor of liberty, not as in "Republican who smokes weed“
Inaction when having power to act is just as bad as the shitty fascist who took advantage of it.
No it isn’t.
Dereliction of duty leading to not preventing murder isn’t murder.
It’s still ABSOLUTELY grounds for losing the job and never regaining it though, don’t get me wrong.
Schumer, Jeffries, et al are not the equivalent of Mussolini’s blackshirts, but they ARE the equivalent of the 1920s Italian Liberals who did nothing to stop them.