Byron York is chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner and a Fox News contributor. He has covered the Bush, Obama, Trump, and now Biden administrations, as well as Congress and each presidential campaign since 2000. He is the author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, an account of liberal activism in the 2004 election.
BIDEN ASKS HOUSE TO PASS ISRAEL AID. HOUSE PASSES ISRAEL AID. BIDEN REJECTS IT. For the last four weeks, since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, Israel has been in the midst of a major security crisis. In the United States, there is a bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill that the U.S. should increase aid to the embattled nation. President Joe Biden has requested $14.3 billion in emergency aid, on top of the nearly $4 billion the U.S. gives to Israel each year.
Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine that will keep you up to date with what's going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! House Republicans want to consider two separate bills, one for Israel and one for Ukraine. They have a point. Israel's retaliation after the Hamas attacks and Ukraine's defense against the Russian invasion are two separate conflicts, in two separate countries, in two different parts of the world, with different combatants. Plus, one of them, the just-beginning fight in Israel, has more support among U.S. voters than the Ukraine war, now in its second year.
Then there is the second question: Should any extraneous measures be attached to the aid? The Biden administration already answered that question by including the request for spending on the U.S.-Mexico border in the overall request for Israel and Ukraine. That's pretty unrelated, isn't it? To the Biden White House, there is nothing particularly sacred about aid to Israel, or to Ukraine, that means an unrelated spending measure can't be thrown in, too.
So, the House passed aid to Israel at a critical moment. That's good, right? Wrong. In the Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the House bill"unserious and inadequate.""Let me be clear," he posted on X."The Senate will not take up the House GOP's deeply flawed proposal.
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