Senate Republicans are battling among themselves over what to do with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal to package $14.3 billion in aid for Israel with an equal cut to the IRS’s budget, and with no additional money for Ukraine.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his allies want the Israel and Ukraine money packaged together, which has led to accusations they are undermining Johnson from Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

Democrats oppose the cuts to the IRS funding. They argue it will raise the deficit and that it politicizes aid to U.S. allies fighting enemy threats.

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    1 year ago

    Notice how neither party objects to part (probably most) of that aid being military aid and as such using tax dollars to directly fund genocide?

    Says a LOT about the state of the political establishment, none of it good.

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      At least the dems only want to genocide the browns outside the country. Inside they just want us to enslave us in prisons.