{"id":2254381,"date":"2024-05-28T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-relented-and-signed-invite-for-netanyahu-to-address-congress-house-speaker-declares\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T15:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T19:47:21","slug":"schumer-relented-and-signed-invite-for-netanyahu-to-address-congress-house-speaker-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-relented-and-signed-invite-for-netanyahu-to-address-congress-house-speaker-declares\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer Signs Invite for Netanyahu to Address Congress as House Speaker Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fschumer-relented-and-signed-invite-for-netanyahu-to-address-congress-house-speaker-declares%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2254381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate\u200b Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York \u200chesitantly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-fauci-new-study-finds-closing-schools-in-response-to-covid-19-delayed-herd-immunity-and-will-increase-overall-deaths\/\" title=\"FIRE FAUCI: New Study Finds Closing Schools In Response to COVID-19 Delayed Herd Immunity and Will Increase Overall Deaths\">signed<\/a> a letter inviting Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to\u200d address Congress. House Speaker\u2062 Mike Johnson of Louisiana revealed Schumer&#8217;s delay since mid-March. \u2062Johnson\u200b challenged Schumer \u2064by threatening \u200cto \u200binvite Netanyahu \u200cpersonally, leading Schumer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazing-congress-got-paid-their-full-salary-of-130k-for-9-months-while-they-argued-about-giving-every-american-600-of-their-own-money\/\" title=\"AMAZING! Congress Got Paid Their Full Salary of 0K for 9 Months While they Argued About Giving Every American 0 of Their Own Money\">finally agree<\/a> under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-failure-of-epic-proportions-inside-the-european-unions-failed-vaccine-rollout\/\" title=\"\u2018A Failure Of Epic Proportions\u2019: Inside The European Union\u2019s Failed Vaccine Rollout\">public pressure<\/a>. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer reluctantly signed a letter inviting Israel&#8217;s\u200c Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to\u2063 speak at\u2063 Congress. House Speaker Mike Johnson exposed Schumer&#8217;s procrastination since mid-March. \u2062Johnson&#8217;s ultimatum to \u2062personally invite Netanyahu prompted Schumer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-rules-biden-administration-engaged-in-illegal-censorship-now-what\/\" title=\"Court finds Biden administration guilty of illegal censorship. What happens next?\">comply due<\/a> to public pressure.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/chuck-schumer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> (D-NY) \u201crelented\u201d and signed onto a letter inviting Israel\u2019s Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/benjamin-netanyahu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> to address a joint session of Congress, House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mike-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on a Louisiana radio talk show, Johnson said Schumer had been \u201cdithering\u201d around since mid-March \u2014\u00a0when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-ends-negotiations-with-nancy-pelosi-on-coronavirus-relief\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Ends Negotiations with Nancy Pelosi on Coronavirus Relief\">speaker<\/a> first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mike-johnson-invites-netanyahu-to-address-congress-rips-schumer-for-interfering-in-israels-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised the prospect<\/a> of asking Netanyahu to deliver a speech to U.S. lawmakers. And so Johnson gave Schumer an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4677792-johnson-gives-schumer-an-ultimatum-on-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ultimatum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI called his bluff last week,\u201d Johnson said on Tuesday, \u201cand said I would invite Netanyahu myself and just skip over him and send individual invitations to senators to join us if they wished. And all of them would, I\u2019m sure, except for a handful. And so finally he relented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schumer faced \u201cpublic pressure and agreed to co-sign a letter so that invitation is going out,\u201d Johnson added. The speaker also predicted Netanyahu will \u201ccome soon\u201d and noted that he was scheduled to speak with the Israeli prime minister again later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Johnson said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mike-johnson-invites-netanyahu-to-address-congress-rips-schumer-for-interfering-in-israels-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box\u201d<\/a> that he wanted to invite Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress in a show of support for Israel as its forces fought against Hamas in the Gaza Strip following a deadly terrorist attack on Israeli soil in October.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Schumer had just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/schumer-calls-for-netanyahus-ouster-new-elections-in-israel-amid-war-with-hamas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delivered a speech<\/a> in which he called for Israel to hold new elections and claimed that Netanyahu was one of the \u201cobstacles to peace.\u201d Republican lawmakers, including Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-LA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mcconnell-rebukes-schumer-over-israel-remarks-grotesque-and-hypocritical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rebuked<\/a> Schumer over the remarks.<\/p>\n<p>During his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2QC8eaWJo40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appearance<\/a> on \u201cMike &#038; McCarty\u201d on 710 KEEL in Shreveport, Johnson said he thinks it is \u201cimportant and historic\u201d for Netanyahu to give Congress a \u201cbird\u2019s eye view\u201d of what is going on in Israel and to \u201caddress\u201d some of the criticism regarding the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a big supporter of Israel, as everybody knows, because I think we have many reasons and obligations to do that. But Chuck Schumer has been trying to play both sides,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, the Biden administration not only has projected weakness on the world stage and gotten us into all these hot wars, but they\u2019ve also been trying to appease Iran and criticize Israel,\u201d he continued. \u201cSchumer was trying to play politics with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reluctantly signed a letter inviting Israel\u2019s PM Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, confirmed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Johnson disclosed during a Louisiana radio interview that Schumer had delayed since mid-March when the speaker initially proposed the invitation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2254382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1850746394-1-scaled-e1716922586923.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1850746394-1-scaled-e1716922586923.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}