cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33488629
By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 20:59 BSTHardline 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.
Why is the only thing both sides enthusiastically agree on is giving billions to Israel?
ETA:
You’re this close Marjorie. “Our own country?” No, They own the country. “Our own people?” They own the people.
Every one of my reps has AIPAC high on their donor list. I am unsure what to say any longer when I call. It feels like my “voice” is too cheap.
They are God’s chosen people, after all. And you, my fellow American, are God’s chosen people’s piggy bank. That’ll be $500,000,000 to keep killing brown people, even AOC says you gotta pay up.
4th box. When even your money holds no meaning to them, your mettle will still will