Democrats rage at Speaker Johnson over pairing Israel aid with IRS cuts

[otto105]

Democrats rage at Speaker Johnson over pairing Israel aid with IRS cuts​

Democrats rage at Speaker Johnson over pairing Israel aid with IRS cuts

Jewish Democrats are raging at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over legislation providing aid to Israel, accusing the newly installed leader of choosing a partisan tack that will only delay emergency …

thehill.com

4 Nov 2023 ~~ By Mychael Schnell & Mike Lilis

Jewish Democrats are raging at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over legislation providing aid to Israel, accusing the newly installed leader of choosing a partisan tack that will only delay emergency assistance to America’s closest Middle Eastern ally.
All but 12 House Democrats voted against Johnson’s $14.3 billion aid proposal Thursday night, with most citing the Speaker’s decision to include cuts in equal amounts to IRS funding.
The legislation is also opposed by leaders of both parties in the Senate, who want a broader package including aid to Ukraine, leaving the fate of the Israel funds in question amid escalating hostilities in Gaza almost a month after Hamas’s terrorist attacks killed more than 1,400 people.
Heading into the weekend, Johnson’s Democratic critics remained furious with the decision to combine the aid to Israel — an issue that has historically enjoyed wide bipartisan support — with a highly partisan cut to one of President Biden’s pet programs. They minced no words in lashing out at the newly minted Speaker, with some even accusing Johnson of abandoning the biblical teachings he claims as a guide.
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“If Democrats in the Senate or the House — or anyone else, anywhere else — want to argue that hiring more IRS agents is more important than standing with Israel in this moment, I’m ready to have that debate,” Johnson told reporters Thursday. “But I did not attach that for political purposes, okay, I attached it because again, we’re trying to get back to the principle of fiscal responsibility here, and that was the easiest and largest pile of money that’s sitting there for us to be able to pay for this immediate obligation.”


Commentary:
I’m liking this guy’s strategy so far. Give a little. Take a little.
If the Democrats aren’t freaking out, then Republicans aren't doing the job right. So far, so good.
We know Johnson wants it paid for...so he needs to take it from something that is NOT a supposed money maker. Yet I wonder why Mike Johnson didn't include taking money from Afghanistan too?
Perhaps Johnson will include reduction of aide to Afghanistan in the coming Bill sending aid to the Ukraine.
In the meantime, Israel is getting riled at Biden and Blinken appeasement efforts, telling Israel what to and how to conduct actions against Hamas.....AND....the fact that we "robbed" a stockpile of OUR weapons in Israel and gave them to Ukraine.
Basically, I feel better about election of Johnson as the Speaker. If Democrats were complimenting Johnson's leadership and actions, I'd surely be worried.

Great

The wingnut right posts an opinion piece.

Own it fuckips.

 

[toobfreak]

Democrats rage at Speaker Johnson over pairing Israel aid with IRS cuts​

Can you blame them? I mean, if that bill went through, we might actually reduce spending AND shrink government, if just by a tiny bit!

 

[Clipper]

Democrats rage at Speaker Johnson over pairing Israel aid with IRS cuts​

Democrats rage at Speaker Johnson over pairing Israel aid with IRS cuts

Jewish Democrats are raging at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over legislation providing aid to Israel, accusing the newly installed leader of choosing a partisan tack that will only delay emergency …

thehill.com

4 Nov 2023 ~~ By Mychael Schnell & Mike Lilis

Jewish Democrats are raging at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over legislation providing aid to Israel, accusing the newly installed leader of choosing a partisan tack that will only delay emergency assistance to America’s closest Middle Eastern ally.
All but 12 House Democrats voted against Johnson’s $14.3 billion aid proposal Thursday night, with most citing the Speaker’s decision to include cuts in equal amounts to IRS funding.
The legislation is also opposed by leaders of both parties in the Senate, who want a broader package including aid to Ukraine, leaving the fate of the Israel funds in question amid escalating hostilities in Gaza almost a month after Hamas’s terrorist attacks killed more than 1,400 people.
Heading into the weekend, Johnson’s Democratic critics remained furious with the decision to combine the aid to Israel — an issue that has historically enjoyed wide bipartisan support — with a highly partisan cut to one of President Biden’s pet programs. They minced no words in lashing out at the newly minted Speaker, with some even accusing Johnson of abandoning the biblical teachings he claims as a guide.
~Snip~
“If Democrats in the Senate or the House — or anyone else, anywhere else — want to argue that hiring more IRS agents is more important than standing with Israel in this moment, I’m ready to have that debate,” Johnson told reporters Thursday. “But I did not attach that for political purposes, okay, I attached it because again, we’re trying to get back to the principle of fiscal responsibility here, and that was the easiest and largest pile of money that’s sitting there for us to be able to pay for this immediate obligation.”


Commentary:
I’m liking this guy’s strategy so far. Give a little. Take a little.
If the Democrats aren’t freaking out, then Republicans aren't doing the job right. So far, so good.
We know Johnson wants it paid for...so he needs to take it from something that is NOT a supposed money maker. Yet I wonder why Mike Johnson didn't include taking money from Afghanistan too?
Perhaps Johnson will include reduction of aide to Afghanistan in the coming Bill sending aid to the Ukraine.
In the meantime, Israel is getting riled at Biden and Blinken appeasement efforts, telling Israel what to and how to conduct actions against Hamas.....AND....the fact that we "robbed" a stockpile of OUR weapons in Israel and gave them to Ukraine.
Basically, I feel better about election of Johnson as the Speaker. If Democrats were complimenting Johnson's leadership and actions, I'd surely be worried.

Johnson is a lying sack of shit because cutting the IRS budget will not cut one penny from the defecit. It will add to it & that's a fact.

Johnson should stop playing with his own johnson & lying to his idiot base.

 

[Clipper]

and you love $33T debt dumped on unsuspecting innocen American Children right? You people is disgusting.

Then don't add to it by cutting funding for tax enforcement agents who's job is to catch tax cheats.

 

[pknopp]

We are so overdue for a Democratic landslide, reform, and fairness after 40 years of giveaway to the rich inequality and now poverty and homelessness. Job. And garbage propaganda all over the new BS GOP...

Waiting for the "rich to pay their fair share".

 

[Lesh]

The IRS isn't using billions of dollars that was funded for them.
No harm-no foul, Francis. Calm down.

Link to that

 

[Clipper]

Again, you morons need to look in the mirror and at your history of just the past seven years. I suppose you support sending a few hundred billion more to Ukraine as well.

You didn't mind cutting taxes for the wealthiest people in the history of mankind, didga genius?

But sending aid to assist a Country rampaged by a murderous dictator burns your ass because that dictator is buddies with your orange knuck dragger.

Just admit it, loser.

 

[Concerned American]

You didn't mind cutting taxes for the wealthiest people in the history of mankind, didga genius?

But sending aid to assist a Country rampaged by a murderous dictator burns your ass because that dictator is buddies with your orange knuck dragger.

Just admit it, loser.

I'm a loser and you use a non word like didga. You're no genius, but your vocabulary isn't quite as profane, Congrats, you seem to be growing up. LOL

 

[jknowgood]

Your support for protecting the greedy idiot rich from tax audits is noted, brainwashed functional moron total dupe of greedy line scumbag mega rich G O P swine....... Also for scaring Ukrainians and Taiwanese and everybody who loves democracy, not including many Republicans these days...

The middle class and poor people will get screwed once again. Seems that's the democrat way.

 

[Clipper]

I'm a loser and you use a non word like didga. You're no genius, but your vocabulary isn't quite as profane, Congrats, you seem to be growing up. LOL

I laid your ass to waste but you're worried about a slang word, mouth breather.

 

[jknowgood]

You didn't mind cutting taxes for the wealthiest people in the history of mankind, didga genius?

But sending aid to assist a Country rampaged by a murderous dictator burns your ass because that dictator is buddies with your orange knuck dragger.

Just admit it, loser.

You do realize Ukraine is just like Russia?

 

[Clipper]

You do realize Ukraine is just like Russia?

Riiiiiight. Then you & Trump should be on their side.

 

[Orangecat]

What a joke. The cultists think their gaslighting works.

Yet you keep doing it.

 

[Orangecat]

For good reason. This scares Ukrainians and Taiwanese and Poles and the French and the Norwegians. We are the leaders of the free world get it? We're not the followers of a mobbed up Manhattan real estate failure con man Mussolini/ Russian oligarch wannabe....

You’re the leader of nothing.

 

[jknowgood]

Riiiiiight. Then you & Trump should be on their side.

One of the most corrupt countries. No wonder you and Biden support them.

 

[Orangecat]

Own it fuckips.

 

[Orangecat]

the defecit.

 

[Orangecat]

Waiting for the "rich to pay their fair share".

That’s Marxist useful idiot speech for “more than me”.

 

[Orangecat]

didga genius?

 

[Orangecat]

orange knuck dragger.