After Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, Republicans and Democrats in Congress both said they needed to act quickly to help Israel.
At the time, the House was floundering without a speaker, and members cited the necessity of sending immediate aid to a close U.S. ally as a motivating reason for solving the speaker drama.
But five weeks after Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected speaker, and nearly eight weeks since the attack, Congress doesn’t appear any closer to passing an aid package—for Israel or for Ukraine, the latter of which has been “weeks” away from running out of weapons for months now.
As Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) told The Daily Beast this week, Ukraine needed an aid package in October.
I could be mistaken, but I don’t think either of the stopgap bills included Ukraine aid.
The US isn’t the only country giving aid and weapons… other countries have provided extra stuff in the meantime
I’m not sure which of the most recent bills included aid for Ukraine, but that just reinforces my point about GOP interference with the continuity of support.