[IsraelTimes] The White House says a Republican proposal for $17.6 billion in military aid for Israel and to replenish US weapons stockpiles, but which leaves out more help for Ukraine, is a "cynical political maneuver."
Possibly less cynical than the bill put forward by the Democrats... possibly not. But becoming cynical is a natural consequence of wading through the DC swamp. There are very few Jimmy Stewarts on the Hill, which is probably just as well. The proposal, announced by Rep. Ken Calvert of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Saturday, comes as the Senate is set to consider a long-awaited bill re-upping US funding for Ukraine, while also providing aid to Israel and stiffening controls along the US-Mexican border.
House Republicans have balked at that bill under the urging of former US president Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
. Saturday’s bill seemingly allows them to show support for Israel while still pulling back military aid for Ukraine and denying US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant ... or is that an act?...
a chance to look tough on immigration.
"The security of Israel should be sacred, not a political game," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says. "We strongly oppose this ploy which does nothing to secure the border, does nothing to help the people of Ukraine defend themselves against Putin’s aggression, and denies humanitarian assistance to Paleostinian civilians, the majority of them women and kiddies, which the Israelis supported by opening the access route."
The Democrat-controlled Senate is seen as unlikely to back the House bill.
The House has already approved a nearly $14.5 billion military aid package in November for Israel that the Senate declined to take up. That bill had demanded that the money for the aid be found by cutting budgets elsewhere, including the IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
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