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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will deliver a brand new Israel assist invoice to the ground with out spending cuts or offsets.
The plan, introduced in a Saturday letter to his colleagues, is a reversal from Johnson’s earlier place. Final yr, within the early days of Johnson’s speakership, the Home handed a $14.3 trillion invoice to assist to Israel in its warfare in opposition to Hamas.
That invoice, which was paid for with an equal discount in funding for the IRS, has not been introduced up by the Senate.
But the Senate seems prepared to contemplate a broader assist package deal this yr with tens of million in assist to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan that features a still-secret border deal.
By transferring Israel assist individually and in a type the Senate has known as for, Johnson can act on which proposal enjoys broad assist from Republicans earlier than the Senate passes that broader invoice with assist for Ukraine’s warfare in opposition to Russia, a lot much less fashionable inside Johnson’s convention.
The border and international assist invoice’s prospects within the Senate aren’t sure. But Johnson’s letter once more makes clear his opposition to that invoice.
Draft particulars of the invoice’s immigration elements have been attacked as ceding management of the border and offering a pathway for much more migration.
Till that negotiated deal meets its destiny, the Senate is unlikely to take up the brand new Home Israel assist invoice. But Johnson’s actions appear to counsel that regardless what occurs to the border and international assist invoice, the outlook for the eventual passage of some type of extra Israel assist is promising.
Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart Information. Comply with him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye.
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