{"id":3592,"date":"2023-10-26T22:55:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T02:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/new-us-house-speaker-says-ukraine-israel-funding-request-should-be-split\/26\/10\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T22:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T02:55:53","slug":"new-us-house-speaker-says-ukraine-israel-funding-request-should-be-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/new-us-house-speaker-says-ukraine-israel-funding-request-should-be-split\/26\/10\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New US House speaker says Ukraine, Israel funding request should be split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Newly elected U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said on Thursday that funding to support Ukraine and Israel should be handled separately, suggesting he will not back <button class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill\" data-ylk=\"cid:Joe_Biden;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:OfficeHolder;\" data-entity-id=\"Joe_Biden\">President Joe Biden<\/button>&#8216;s $106 billion aid package for both countries.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, speaking in an interview on Fox News, has concerns about Ukraine funding in general, and believes any money for Israel will need to be funded by cuts elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>He met Biden on Thursday and said he told White House staff &#8220;our consensus among House Republicans is we need to bifurcate those issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden wants Congress to provide $106 billion in supplemental funding, with the bulk of the money going to bolster Ukraine&#8217;s defenses and the remainder split among Israel, Indo-Pacific and border enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said of Ukraine funding: &#8220;We want to know what the object is there, what is the end game in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The White House has not provided that,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is betting that including money for Israel and immigration will help convince House Republicans wary of sending additional money to Ukraine to support the measure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel is a separate matter \u2013 we are going to bring forward a standalone Israel funding measure (of) over $14 billion,\u201d Johnson said in the interview. He said House Republicans will look for other areas to cut in the budget in order to finance the funding for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The package includes $14.3 billion for Israel to fund air and missile defense support and other initiatives, as well as $61 billion for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Eric Beech and Chris Sanders; Editing by Jamie Freed and Raju Gopalakrishnan)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-house-speaker-says-ukraine-014940608.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Newly elected U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said on Thursday that funding to support Ukraine and Israel should<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/new-us-house-speaker-says-ukraine-israel-funding-request-should-be-split\/26\/10\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}