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.
Yeah this bill cuts funding for the iron dome, putting Israeli civilians in danger without cutting funding for the bombs being used to kill Palestinians, and Iranians, and … Every other neighboring country. Ask this does is ensure even more people in the middle east will die.
counterpoint: weakening the iron dome will increase pressure on Israel to stop its aggressive behavior.
Not as much as not giving them the weapons at all