Speaker Johnson Criticizes Biden For Turning Its Back on Israel

by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized President Joe Biden for his threat to veto a standalone aid bill for Israel in their “hour of greatest need.”

Johnson argued that by separating the aid for Israel’s conflict with Hamas from President Biden’s broader border policy and foreign aid package—which also encompasses funds for Ukraine and Taiwan—the assistance for Israel could be expedited and resolved more efficiently.

“It is outrageous and shameful that the President of the United States would suggest that he would veto support for them in their hour of greatest need,” Speaker Johnson stated. “Israel is fighting for the right to exist as a nation. And the President of the United States wants to play games with this.”

This marks the Speaker’s second effort to introduce a standalone bill for aid to Israel. It occurs while the President’s $118 billion package faces severe challenges, struggling to gain traction in the Democrat-controlled Senate and considered “dead on arrival” in the GOP-led House.

On Monday evening, Speaker Johnson told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that the Senate bill, which had been negotiated between the Biden Administration and Senate GOP leadership, was “dead on arrival.”

“There’s no way we could bring this through the House. The Senate expects us to pass a bill, a piece of legislation that you did a great job dismantling here. What it would do is further incentivize illegal immigration. It would not resolve any of the problems, not reform in any meaningful way the broken asylum system, the broken parole process, and all the things that have created this catastrophe.”

“The bill itself would actually do more harm than good, and that’s why we have said it’s a nonstarter over here in the House,” Johson told Ingraham.

The Speaker’s proposal for standalone emergency aid for Israel prompted a veto threat on Monday, with the House scheduled to vote on the measure on Tuesday.

The bill’s passage appeared highly uncertain, as members of the House Freedom Caucus promised to vote against the bill due to concerns over the nation’s staggering debt. This resistance was compounded by opposition from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who advised his Democratic colleagues to reject the bill.

“It is a nakedly obvious and cynical attempt by MAGA extremists to undermine the possibility of a comprehensive, bipartisan funding package that addresses America’s national security challenges in the Middle East, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific region and throughout the world,” Jefferies claimed.

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