(July 14, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
The Congressional Progressive Caucus broke with House Democratic leadership on Tuesday in the latest example of support for Israel dividing the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n
Hours after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) sent a letter<\/a> to colleagues saying that he would oppose an amendment to end $3.3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), chair of the Progressive Caucus, sent a competing letter urging House Democrats to reject the aid to Israel.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Democratic Party needs a new approach to Israel and Palestine,\u201d Casar wrote. \u201cThe American people are crying out for an end to U.S. tax dollars subsidizing Israel\u2019s military.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAfter the Israeli government has killed more than 70,000 people in Gaza and helped lead the United States into a destabilizing, deadly war with Iran, we are called to act,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n The House is expected to vote later this week on an amendment from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to strip funding for Israel from the 2027 national security and State Department appropriations bill.<\/p>\n Massie lost<\/a> his primary in May, in an election that focused in large part on his opposition to U.S. aid to Israel. He has used much of his remaining time in the House to pursue anti-Israel measures, including calling to re-investigate<\/a> the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and amendments to strip out Israel-related provisions from annual appropriations bills. <\/p>\n The Jewish state receives about $3.8 billion annually in U.S. aid, including $3.3 billion in foreign military funding to purchase arms and $500 million for cooperative missile defense programs.<\/p>\n Massie\u2019s proposal to end most of that aid, which also includes some spending on humanitarian programs, has further divided a Democratic caucus in which support for Israel has become a major fault line and cost several incumbents their seats in primary challenges from the anti-Israel left.<\/p>\n In his letter on Tuesday morning opposing the Massie amendment, Jeffries acknowledged the difficult political calculus that many Democrats face and called for a \u201cmajor reset\u201d of U.S.-Israel relations.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are good faith reasons that will result in members voting in a variety of different ways with respect to the amendment,\u201d Jeffries wrote. \u201cMoving forward, it is my strongly held view that for the good of Israel and the Palestinian people, American policy in the Middle East must change.\u201d <\/p>\n Jeffries called for a restructuring of the next 10-year agreement between Israel and the United States, saying that the Jewish state was \u201ccapable of paying for its own sophisticated weapons\u201d and that the United States should support the creation of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 14, 2026 \/ JNS) The Congressional Progressive Caucus broke with House Democratic leadership on Tuesday in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-541630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}