I see the Dems are doing what they do best....wasting time and money....don't get me wrong the GOP waste more and spend more than the Dems so they are not exempt from criticism.
Instead of focusing on making the American people feel that they are still part of this process the Dems have decided their time is best spent giving taxpayer dollars away.
What am I going on about?
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) vowed in a letter to his colleagues to bring a bill to the Senate floor as soon as December 4 to fund military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. President Biden has requested the funding as part of a massive $105 billion spending package.
"One of the most important tasks we must finish is taking up and passing a funding bill to ensure we as well as our friends and partners in Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific region have the necessary military capabilities to confront and deter our adversaries and competitors," Schumer said. "That's why I intend to bring the President's national security supplemental package to the floor as soon as the week of December 4."
Schumer blamed Republicans for the delay in the passage of the $105 billion behemoth, which was formally requested on October 20. He said the biggest holdup "is the insistence by our Republican colleagues on partisan border policy as a condition for vital Ukraine aid," although Biden's request includes $13.6 billion for the border.
House Republicans have passed a bill that stripped the over $14 billion allocated to fund Israel's war in Gaza from Biden's $105 billion request. But it has been rejected by Democrats because it includes cuts to the IRS, and Schumer has refused to bring it to the floor for a vote in the Senate.
Despite the impasse, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Monday that he is "confident and optimistic" that Congress will be able to pass funding for both Israel and Ukraine. President Biden has requested $61 billion to fund the proxy war in Ukraine for another entire year despite Kyiv's failed counteroffensive.
Johnson said Israel is a "top priority" for the US and said Ukraine is also important but must be tied to border funding. "Ukraine is another priority. Of course, we can't allow Vladimir Putin to march through Europe. And we understand the necessity of assisting there. What we've said is that if there is to be additional assistance to Ukraine — which most members of Congress believe is important — we have to also work on changing our own border policy," he said.
Johnson said that negotiations on the issues were ongoing. He also said the other items included in Biden's $105 billion request will also be worked out. "With regard to the rest of it, there's some other items in the supplemental package — I think all that will come together in the coming days," he said.
Biden also asked for $7.4 billion to spend on the US military buildup in the Indo-Pacific region, which includes $2 billion in military aid that's expected to mainly go to Taiwan. Republican China hawks are asking for another $12 billion to spend on preparations for a future war with China in the region.
(antiwar.com)
Money for Ukraine....money for Taiwan.....and lots of cash for Israel....and Israel gets the plum deal....
President Joe Biden has requested that Congress to lift most of the restrictions on Israel's access to a U.S. stockpile of weapons in the country, The Intercept reported Saturday.
The request came in the administration's supplemental budget request to the U.S. Senate, sent October 20. It concerns the War Reserve Stockpile Allies-Israel (WRSA-I) that the U.S. has stored in Israel since the 1980s for its own use in a potential conflict in the region. The U.S. allows Israel to access the stockpile under certain conditions, but Biden's request would remove most of these conditions, including a requirement that Israel only use surplus or obsolete weapons and a cap on how much the U.S. can spend resupplying the stash.
"The President's emergency supplemental funding request would essentially create a free-flowing pipeline to provide any defense articles to Israel by the simple act of placing them in the WRSA-I stockpile, or other stockpiles intended for Israel," Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned over U.S. arm transfers to Israel in the midst of its bombardment of Gaza, told The Intercept.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-request-arms-israel
Free flowing....I thought Israel already had free flowing deal from the US on everything.
But just in case Biden has made it clear....they get whatever they, Israel, wants....
Senior US officials speaking to POLITICO on Wednesday have reaffirmed that the Biden administration intends to place no conditions on future military aid to Israel despite public comments suggesting the idea was under consideration.
Amid growing calls from Democrats to condition military aid to Israel, President Biden told reporters the idea is a "worthwhile thought," but US officials said it won't happen. "It's not something we're currently pursuing," one official said.
Many took Biden's post as a significant shift in rhetoric, as he has previously rejected the idea of a lasting ceasefire. But a senior administration official speaking to Jewish Insider said it wasn't a change in policy and that the US would continue to support the Israeli onslaught.
(antiwar.com)
Can you see now why I have zero confidence in the Dems?
We have inflation going batcrap crazy, we have a housing problem, we have a terrible health system, we have national hunger and we have climate problem and with all those situations they had rather make sure that wars have the cash they need to go forward.
Is this the best they can do before they go on their extended Christmas break?
You may approve....I do not!
Think 2024!
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"lego ergo scribo"
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