The House passed a stand-alone bill Thursday that would send military aid to Israel in its conflict with Hamas terrorists, to be funded by cuts to the budget of the Internal Revenue Service.
The Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024 would provide funds to the Defense Department to replace equipment provided to Israel as military aid, fund research for new air defense systems being developed by Israel, such as the Iron Beam aerial laser program, and fund the State Department's programs to evacuate U.S. citizens from the region as well as protect U.S. diplomatic missions under new threats due to the conflict.
"House Republicans are bringing forward a bill to ensure Israel has what it needs to defend itself as it fights to eliminate the threat from Hamas," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., wrote in an email to the Daily Caller News Foundation ahead of the vote.
Biden previously proposed a supplemental appropriations bill totalling $106 billion to fund aid not only to Israel but also to Ukraine during its war with Russia, as well as provide funds for border security and immigration processing at the U.S. border with Mexico.
"Speaker [Mike] Johnson and House Republicans released a totally unserious and woefully inadequate package that omitted aid to Ukraine, omitted humanitarian assistance to Gaza, had no funding for the Indo-Pacific, and made funding for Israel conditional on hard-right, never-going-to-pass proposals. What a joke," Schumer, D-N.Y., said.
Ahead of the bill's consideration, several House Republicans indicated to the Daily Caller News Foundation that they wouldn't have voted for a bill providing military aid unless it was offset by corresponding spending cuts.
"We need to have the offsets," Good said, when pressed on whether he'd support a bill to aid Israel without offsetting cuts.
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