The American Spectator | USA News and Politics "We always knew this, but now there is no further doubt: Today’s Democrat Party is a congregation of slaves devoted to the federal government’s perpetual expansion at the expense of every other consideration.
"And that certainly includes Israel, amid a war foisted upon it by the Democrats’ friends among the Palestinian Arabs and their Iranian backers.
"There is a bill to provide some $15 billion in aid for Israel now moving through Congress. But new House Speaker Mike Johnson did something interesting with it. (READ MORE from Scott McKay: Here’s to You, Cornel West and Dean Phillips!)
"He tied the appropriation for Israel aid to a corresponding cut — namely, to the $80 billion funding increase for the IRS that the Democrat-led House passed in the dying throes of the last Congress.
"This, we’re told, was a colossal mistake on Johnson’s part:
Johnson has made a “huge and consequential blunder” by tying additional U.S. aid for Israel to a cut in Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding, according to a senior Democratic-leaning political strategist.
On Monday, House Republicans introduced a bill that would provide an additional $14.3 billion in aid to Israel which is currently fighting Hamas, in exchange for an IRS funding cut of the same value. Spending on the IRS was beefed up in 2022 as part of President Biden’s flagship Inflation Reduction Act, which also substantially increased investment in green energy.President Biden has requested $106 billion from Congress, $61.4 billion of which would go to Ukraine, $14.3 billion to Israel, 13.6 billion to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, with the remainder for Taiwan and other humanitarian work including in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine. However, Republicans in the House—some of whom oppose any additional aid to Ukraine—instead introduced the standalone bill offering financing for Israel in return for IRS cuts. . . .
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