The White House and the U.S. Congress are actively discussing the possibility of combining military aid to Israel with additional funding for Ukraine, NBC News reported on Oct. 10, citing officials from the administration and two pro-Ukraine lawmakers from the Republican Party.
Lawmakers from both parties who support providing additional assistance to Ukraine have proposed this approach as a potential way to secure funding for Kyiv, despite resistance from some members of the Republican Party in the U.S. Congress.
A group of conservatives in the House of Representatives strongly opposes new funding for Ukraine, as requested by the White House. However, allocating additional aid to Israel after attacks by Hamas militants on Israelis does not face the same level of opposition among members of the U.S. Congress.
The White House is currently evaluating the "political viability" of such a method, said an administration representative, acknowledging that the final decision will be up to Congress.
John Kirby, the U.S. National Security Council's coordinator for strategic communications, stated that the needs of both countries are important, and the United States is "large enough, big enough, economically viable and vibrant enough country to be able to support both."
Despite the U.S. administration already providing military aid to Israel, the White House expects that congressional action will be required for additional aid that may be needed by the country.
I was actually thinking about this but didn't post it because I thought they wouldn't do it, Lol.
My basic idea was the Democrats going like "okay, lets pass a foreign military aid budget, instead of doing separate bills for Ukraine and Israel this budget would cover all "foreign military aid" and then we leave it to the President to decide where the funds are sent" and make it like a couple dozen billion at minimum, politicians are up Israel's ass so it might be a smart thing to do and at the end of the day, Israel wouldn't need much from this hypothetical budget, they're already incredibly powerful.
