President Joe Biden is threatening to veto House Republicans’ aid package to Israel unless it includes funding for Ukraine — and Speaker Mike Johnson should call his bluff.
The confirmation came during Thursday’s White House press briefing, in which National Security Council spokesman John Kirby was asked whether Biden would veto legislation containing aid for Israel in its fight against Hamas but not “other issues.”
“The president would veto an only-Israel bill. I think that we’ve made that clear,” Kirby said.
In the wake of Hamas’ horrific attack against Israel, House Republicans unveiled a new spending package on Monday that would provide the Jewish state with $14.3 billion in aid using previously allocated funding for the IRS. Of course, this has drawn backlash from administration officials such as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who threw a tantrum over the proposal on X. Despite authorizing $113 billion in aid for Ukraine in 2022 alone, the White House has since proposed a $105 billion spending package that would force Congress to ship billions of dollars to the second most corrupt country in Europe as a package deal with U.S. aid to Israel.
But Biden isn’t the only politico in Washington threatening to block aid to Israel in order to continue bankrolling America’s proxy war with Russia. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to subtly voice his displeasure with House Republicans’ bid to separate U.S. aid to Israel and Ukraine and baselessly claim the two conflicts are interconnected.
