White House calls House GOP's $17.6B Israel aid bill a 'cynical political maneuver'
By: Filip Timotija (The Hill)
The Man from Louisiana strikes again! Who had heard of Mike Johnson before he became Speaker of the House? Even Trump has glommed onto Johnson's politics so we know Mike Johnson is on to something. And the unbiased liberal press still underestimates and ignores the Man from Louisiana.
Mike Johnson pushed a 'clean' immigration bill through the House last May. And the coastal elite promptly ignored that bill; preferring to kick the can. Mike Johnson pushed an Israel aid package through the House last November. And Biden declared that House bill dead on arrival to protect the IRS. After all, the country bumpkins from the middle of the country don't know crap about anything. Now Mike Johnson is undermining Biden's quid-pro-quo negotiations to get the Senate to agree to a watered down do-nothing immigration bill. So, now let's hear how Chuck Schumer is going to ignore House legislation to provide aid to Israel again. Let's hear how Joe Biden plans veto aid to Israel just to protect his quid-pro-quo do-nothing agreement. Tell us, Joe, how difficult it is to get the Senate to kick the can. Let's hear the unbiased liberal press tell us how the Senate kicking the can will be consequential.
Mike Johnson has been on the ball and passed bills through the House before Biden can lie to the American people. Johnson has been undercutting Biden's phony politics since Johnson became Speaker. The Man from Louisiana strikes again!
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The White House criticized House Republicans on Saturday for unveiling a $17.6 billion bill that would provide additional aid to Israel amid its ongoing war in the Middle East, calling it a "cynical political maneuver."
The administration specifically criticized the bill, which Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the House would vote on next week, disparaging GOP lawmakers for singling out aid for only one U.S. ally — as the Senate negotiates on the bipartisan border and aid package.
"For months the administration has been working with a bipartisan group of Senators on a national security agreement that secures our border and provides support for the people of Ukraine and Israel," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement released Saturday. "Just as legislative text is imminent, the House Republicans come up with their latest cynical political maneuver. The security of Israel should be sacred, not a political game."
The statement comes as Johnson announced a "clean, standalone" Israel aid bill earlier on Saturday.
The new legislation, which Johnson called a "clean, standalone" bill, would buck the development made in the upper chamber as senators continue to negotiate on the bipartisan bill. While text hasn't been made public yet, it is expected sometime this weekend.
The $17.6 billion bill comes after the lower chamber passed a $14.3 billion Israel aid package last November that had parallel cuts to the IRS funding. It passed with a 226-196 vote in the House, but has not been taken up in the Senate.
The White House urged the House GOP, again, to work with the administration and the Senate in passing the national security bill, which does include funding for Ukraine, a priority for President Biden.
"We strongly oppose this ploy which does nothing to secure the border, does nothing to help the people of Ukraine defend themselves against Putin's aggression, and denies humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians, the majority of them women and children, which the Israelis supported by opening the access route," Jean-Pierre wrote. "House Republicans should instead work in a bipartisan way, like the administration and Senate are doing, on these pressing national security issues."
However, Johnson said Friday that if reports about potential terms of the deal were true, it would be "dead on arrival" in the House.
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The coastal elite don't know how to play Cajun chess.
Similar to the House passed bill on the border, Democrats prefer to say it's only doable if you write it like I want it. Same partisan games from the other side of the same coin.
While neither bill is likely to pass in the Senate, I'll give the House this much. At least they are passing bills that can be used for campaigning in the fall.