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.
Ambitious! It would actually go to military industrial contracts more directly (maybe in R&D for new weapons) so as “not to disrupt the economy”.
And they’d be mostly fine with it.