The Growing Republican Battle Over War Funding
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- It’s been one month since the attack on Israel, but Washington has yet to deliver an aid package to its closest ally. The reason has to do with a different ally, in a different war: Speaker Mike Johnson has opposed continued funding for Ukraine, and wants the issue separated from aid to Israel, setting up a clash between the House and Senate.
Catie Edmondson, who covers Congress for The Times, discusses the battle within the Republican Party over whether to keep funding Ukraine.
Guest: Catie Edmondson (www.nytimes.co...) , a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• The Republican-led House approved $14.3 billion for Israel’s war with Hamas (www.nytimes.co...) , but no further funding for Ukraine.
• Speaker Johnson’s bill put the House on a collision course with the Senate (www.nytimes.co...) .
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By what metric is Israel a closer or more important ally than Canada? I hear this claim all the time, but I never get an explanation as to why Israel is our most important ally.
@@benjamingarrett1175 they can always move to siberia...
It is the Israel lobby that promotes this. They give money to politicians and news organizations to take that position. You're correct, a country like Canada or Mexico is a much more important ally.
Maybe it is for the oil resources and the Jewish community support.
It is so weird that Republicans want to fund Israel, but not Ukraine. I see Israel committing war crimes every day in Gaza, but Republicans want to fund that? What benefit do we receive from funding the continued occupation of Palestine?
I would love to see US imperialism defunded, but that involves cutting the US military, which is a taboo topic for the American right wing.
what a stupid viewpoint
It is a taboo topic for both factions of the single Business Party. Both parties support the military industrial complex, Zionism, and corporations.
Zero money for either conflict.
Funding Ukraine is critical to US national security interest.
^Pentagon stooge
@@juventinocasillas3023 really, i am a civilian. Get off your bubble, ook around you what is happening with CCP, Russia, DPRK, Syria, and Iran on one end, and the weakened West on the other end due to stupid politicians .
@@gfscfinance8866 Your everyday life is not affected nor will it be by what happens in a nothing country like Ukraine.
Kinda weird I get hella ads on most YT shows, including 5 minute ads and occasional half hour, but not a one on the NYT daily...
Not a penny more, close the southern border!
Get an education
A blue-collar union guy here. No more funding foreign wars.
We are struggling here to keep the lights on.
They aren't foreign wars. The world, sadly, is very interconnected nowadays. The phone you use might have raw materials from Mongolia, manufactured in Taiwan and China by a South Korean company, with a manual translated by a British translator, shipped by an American ship using Arabic oil. Anything happens in this chain (North Korea emboldened by Russian success in Ukraine attacks South Korea, China emboldened by Russian success in Ukraine attacks Taiwan) - and you have problems. Prices go up, inflation, economic crash etc. We're struggling to keep the lights on because we're struggling to prevent this.
The irony of people, who in deeply conservative areas of our nation, according to the Tax Policy Center,
who 61% paid no federal taxes in 2022
should have the unmitigated gaul to tell the people who paid taxes
where and how it should be spent is the height of chutzpah!
Your country has a debt of 33.7 trillion dollars and ZIRP and MMT are not coming back. The US is the largest humanitarian aid donor to Afghanistan after literally blowing the place up for 20 years and we are now told that we have to accept Afghan refugees because, somehow, we are all complicit in helping to blow the place up.
US corporations are looking to now transfer low wage jobs from China to Viet Nam after the US spent 10 years blowing that place up. The US will borrow the money from China, Japan, and US citizens to send to Israel and Ukraine. This is after the US already pays, in the form of grants, about 16% of Israel's annual defense budget, even though Israel's debt to GDP is about half that of the US. China is supposed to, now, be one of the biggest enemies of the US - that doesn't make a lot of sense.
And the idea that CA taxpayers are footing the bill for all of the Red states while being the third largest home to defense contractors in the Country is kind of funny. Do you know how many Lockheed Martin plants are in CA? Do you know what Lockheed Martin builds? About 50% of US population pay no Federal income tax in a given year and CA has about 30% of US homeless while it has ~12% of US population.
@@ijerryhale 509 counties who voted for Biden make up 71% of economic gdp according to Moody’s analytics.
Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota have a combined population of 3,286,795.
Connecticut and Rhode Island has a combined population of 4,665,305.
But they mountain states which roughly have a million less people then the 2 smallest state out number them in the US Senate 2 to 1.
My point is we are being ruled by a minority of people who contribute less, and do less, then the bulk of Americans who want completely different things because they are paying for it.
No matter who paid the taxes, it should not go to Israel, an inconsequential small country on the other side of the world. Israel should defend itself.
The NY times loves Trump and will do everything possible to elect trump and I have a subscription to the NY times, I'm paying them to work for trump.
What are you smoking?
No they don't
As an evangelical, I believe it's important for the United States government to provide unwavering support to Israel to fulfill our prophetic beliefs. It is essential for us to stand firmly with Israel.
What in the actual fuc?
“To fulfill our prophetic beliefs” at the expense of the fundamental rights of human beings?
For your ideology you are will to support ethnic cleansing. Ok. I got you.
We are the wealthiest nation on earth by far. There is no reason that we can’t solve our domestic issues and continue to help fight off the eastern threats. Don’t listen to the typical rhetoric that you have to choose one or the other, especially by people that hold all the keys and pay none of the tax