cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33488629

By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 20:59 BST

Hardline America Firster and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to strip Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.

The House of Representatives, however, rejected in a 422-6 vote on Thursday, to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program - an agreement through which the US provides Israel with $500m to boost its missile programmes.

It is a separate allocation from the $3.3bn the US sends Israel as “security assistance” every year.

  • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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    That’s the problem you see. If they can take care of themselves they might figure out how to take care of us in the future should they need to