{"id":804609,"date":"2026-08-06T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804609\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:52:11","slug":"congress-may-phase-out-billions-in-military-funding-to-israel-but-deepen-ties-another-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804609\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress May Phase Out Billions in Military Funding to Israel\u2014but Deepen Ties Another Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.) has also criticized the proposal, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepAOC\/status\/2079730546507174380\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">warning<\/a> that the provision would \u201cmerge parts of our military with the IDF.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cThis amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Proponents of the provisions rejected Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s characterization, arguing that the proposal does not merge the two militaries but increases joint investment and research.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Nevertheless, opposition to the provisions has continued to grow among lawmakers of both parties. Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D, Calif.) introduced a bipartisan amendment to remove the provisions in June, but the House Rules Committee twice denied it a floor vote.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The House subsequently passed the NDAA with the provision intact on July 22. But the broader defense package, which is historically considered must-pass legislation, faces an uphill battle in the Senate. All but six voting House Democrats voted against it, and Senate Democrats blocked a July 14 motion to begin the debate. A new motion to begin considering the Senate bill was made on July 27, but the Senate has not yet voted to take it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.) has also criticized the proposal, warning that the provision would \u201cmerge parts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1922,803,4379,3,7688,24308,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-804609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-foreign-policy","tag-israel","tag-military","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-overnight","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}