[Jpost] The legislation was introduced a day after the funding was removed from a broader spending bill.
The leader of the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee introduced legislation on Wednesday to provide $1 billion to Israel to replenish its "Iron Dome" missile-defense system, a day after the funding was removed from a broader spending bill.
Some of the most liberal House Democrats had objected to the provision and said they would vote against the broad spending bill. This threatened its passage because Republicans were lined up against the plan to fund the federal government through December 3 and raise the nation's borrowing limit.
The removal led Republicans to label Democrats as anti-Israel, despite a long tradition in the US Congress of strong support from both parties for the Jewish state, to which Washington sends billions of dollars in aid every year.
The United States has already provided more than $1.6 billion for Israel to develop and build the Iron Dome system, according to a Congressional Research Service report last year.
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[NYPOST] Republican politicians are slamming Democrats after House leadership moved to defund Israel’s Iron Dome on Tuesday — calling out the move as Democrats "[capitulating] to the antisemitic influence of their radical members."Spearheaded by the "Squad" of far-left politicians, which includes Reps. Alexandria
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(D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), the House moved to cut $1 billion in funding for Israel’s missile defense system from a short-term government funding bill.
Republicans in the House and Senate immediately blasted the decision, suggesting the defunding was a betrayal of Israel.
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(R-Calif.) echoed his sentiments, promising Republicans would stand with the Middle Eastern country.
"While Dems capitulate to the antisemitic influence of their radical members, Republicans will always stand with Israel," McCarthy wrote.