The Republican-controlled House on Thursday approved legislation to send roughly $14 billion in emergency aid to Israel and cut about the same amount from the Internal Revenue Service, in a deeply divided vote on a measure that Senate leaders say they won’t take up and President Biden has already threatened to veto.
Biden in October requested $106 billion in emergency foreign aid for Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion, Israel’s response to Hamas’s attacks and to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific.
But the cuts to the IRS would actually cost taxpayers money, meaning the aid for Israel would add to the deficit even more than just borrowing the $14 billion Biden wants to send, according to a nonpartisan analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), then the House speaker, struck a deal with Biden in June to reprogram $20 billion of the IRS funding as part of an agreement to raise the federal debt limit.
The House proposal turned what could have been an easy political win for the new speaker into a partisan fight that jeopardized crucial aid to the U.S.'s top Middle Eastern ally.
Even Johnson’s bid to add a so-called pay-for to the Israel package is relatively unheard of — most emergency aid is not accompanied by compensatory spending cuts — signaling to the hard-right wing of the House GOP the speaker’s willingness to tangle with both Democratic and Republican Senate leaders over previously noncontroversial policies.
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The Republican-controlled House on Thursday approved legislation to send roughly $14 billion in emergency aid to Israel and cut about the same amount from the Internal Revenue Service, in a deeply divided vote on a measure that Senate leaders say they won’t take up and President Biden has already threatened to veto.
Biden in October requested $106 billion in emergency foreign aid for Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion, Israel’s response to Hamas’s attacks and to counter Chinese influence in the Pacific.
But the cuts to the IRS would actually cost taxpayers money, meaning the aid for Israel would add to the deficit even more than just borrowing the $14 billion Biden wants to send, according to a nonpartisan analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), then the House speaker, struck a deal with Biden in June to reprogram $20 billion of the IRS funding as part of an agreement to raise the federal debt limit.
The House proposal turned what could have been an easy political win for the new speaker into a partisan fight that jeopardized crucial aid to the U.S.'s top Middle Eastern ally.
Even Johnson’s bid to add a so-called pay-for to the Israel package is relatively unheard of — most emergency aid is not accompanied by compensatory spending cuts — signaling to the hard-right wing of the House GOP the speaker’s willingness to tangle with both Democratic and Republican Senate leaders over previously noncontroversial policies.
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