Marjorie Taylor Greene votes alongside Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to cut funding for Israel
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.
“Israel bombed the Catholic Church in Gaza, and that entire population is being wiped out as they continue their aggressive war in Gaza,” Greene told her colleagues in a rare statement from a Republican.
“My amendment would strike $500m in funding for nuclear-armed Israel’s missile defence system. The US already provides Israel with $3.8bn annually in foreign aid. 3.8 billion. That’s a lot of money,” she said. [Continue reading…]