More than 100 House Democrats just voted to slash military aid to Israel
Usually, voting on military aid to Israel in Congress is about as controversial as declaring mother's day. Well, not anymore.
A massive shift just went down in the House, and barely anyone is talking about how weird the math was. A conservative Republican named Thomas Massie put up a proposal to trim $3.3 billion in military aid to Israel.
Normally, this kind of thing gets laughed out of the room. But this time, over a hundred Democrats actually voted yes.
Sure, the bill failed miserably overall, but the real story is the civil war happening inside the Democratic party. Some high-ranking Dems, like Katherine Clark, voted for the cut while literally calling the bill a Republican stunt designed to make them look bad. Talk about voting yes with a massive asterisk. Meanwhile, the top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries voted against it but told everyone else to just "vote their conscience."
Progressives are already spinning this as a historic win, claiming the era of the unconditional blank check to Benjamin Netanyahu's government is officially cracking.
It turns out unconditional military funding isn't the easy, bipartisan slam dunk it used to be.
Source: The Guardian
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