{"id":4706,"date":"2023-11-03T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2023-11-03T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:57:53","slug":"us-house-passes-bill-on-aid-to-israel-but-not-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4706","title":{"rendered":"US House passes bill on aid to Israel, but not Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Republican-led House of Representatives approved a $14.3 billion military aid measure for Israel without mentioning Ukraine, despite a veto threat from President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Besides no aid for Kiev, the legislation also includes cuts to the Internal Revenue Service&#8217;s tax enforcement initiative \u2013 part of the Inflation Reduction Act that is a key part of Biden&#8217;s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the money in the GOP bill would go to help Israel replenish and bulk up its weapons systems, including $4 billion for the Iron Dome and David&#8217;s Sling missile defense systems. The measure also includes $200 million for the protection of US personnel and evacuation of American citizens. <\/p>\n<p>Notably, it completely omits humanitarian aid for Gaza.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican-led House of Representatives approved a $14.3 billion military aid measure for Israel without mentioning Ukraine, despite a veto threat from President Biden. Besides no aid for Kiev, the legislation also includes cuts to the Internal Revenue Service&#8217;s tax enforcement initiative \u2013 part of the Inflation Reduction Act that is a key part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}