{"id":2609173,"date":"2026-06-01T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massie-and-khanna-rail-against-integrating-us-military-with-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:45:24","slug":"massie-and-khanna-rail-against-integrating-us-military-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massie-and-khanna-rail-against-integrating-us-military-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Massie and Khanna rail against integrating US military with Israel"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmassie-and-khanna-rail-against-integrating-us-military-with-israel%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=2609173&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>Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro khanna (D-CA) say they will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-bishop-introduces-amendments-to-ban-all-federal-funds-promoting-critical-race-theory\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Bishop ...s Amendments To Ban All Federal Funds Promoting Critical Race Theory\">introduce amendments<\/a> to remove a provision from the annual National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Secretary of Defense to designate a lead official to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-homeland-security-department-illegal-immigrants-should-get-vaccine\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Homeland Security Department: Illegal Immigrants Should Get Vaccine\">coordinate efforts<\/a> to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries.  <\/p>\n<p>They argue this integration-focused on areas like technology research, testing, and industrial cooperation-should not be included in the must<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-drop-challenge-to-men-only-draft\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court To Drop Challenge to Men...Only Draft\">-pass defense bill<\/a>. Both lawmakers have previously collaborated on efforts related to publicly releasing data about Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s case.  <\/p>\n<p>Massie publicly vowed to push the measure\u2019s removal on the House floor if it survives committee, while Khanna said he will seek the change during the committee\u2019s scheduled markup. Other committee member Derrick Van Orden criticized their stance, defending the security arrangement and accusing them of targeting it for political reasons.  <\/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<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reps. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/thomas-massie\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"17668\">Thomas Massie<\/a> (R-KY) and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ro-khanna\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"5039\">Ro Khanna<\/a> (D-CA) are working to strip a provision in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >annual defense bill<\/a> that would integrate the U.S. and Israeli <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/military\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"266\">militaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A provision in this year\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/armedservices.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/fy27_ndaa_chairmans_mark_-_final.pdf\">National Defense Authorization Act<\/a> requires War Secretary Pete Hegseth to appoint a lead official to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kidnapped-american-rescued-in-mexican-border-city\/\" title=\"Kidnapped American Rescued in Mexican Border City\">coordinate joint<\/a> U.S.-<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"219\">Israel<\/a> defense efforts, including technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation. The effort to integrate the U.S. military with Israel comes amid joint attacks against <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iran<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4587739\/congress-returns-long-to-do-list\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Congress comes back to a long post-Memorial Day to-do list<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4585479\/jared-moskowitz-bid-competitive-florida-district-new-map\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Jared Moskowitz launches bid in competitive Florida district redrawn under new DeSantis map<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4584828\/massie-fishing-trip-mtg\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Massie goes on fishing trip with MTG after losing Kentucky primary election<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Massie and Khanna, who previously partnered on a discharge petition to force the Justice Department to release the files of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, are vowing to introduce amendments to remove the section in its entirety, either in committee or on the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/house\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/house\/\">House<\/a> floor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Massie, who lost his primary bid to a Trump-backed challenger last month, railed against the provision on social media, saying he would move to remove the measure on the House floor if it made it out of the House Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are a sovereign country,\u201d Massie <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/2060836033277911042?s=20\">wrote<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khanna, a member of the committee, pledged to introduce an amendment to strip it from the must-pass military bill during the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/armedservices.house.gov\/calendar\/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=6601\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/armedservices.house.gov\/calendar\/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=6601\">committee\u2019s scheduled markup<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTrump can\u2019t kill the Massie\/Khanna partnership no matter how much he posts on Truth Social,\u201d Khanna said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Massie warned he was \u201clooking forward\u201d to posting the committee\u2019s vote outcome online, in a warning shot to committee members ahead of any vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMaybe they\u2019ll go ahead and strip the provision instead of taking the vote, now that people are on to them,\u201d Massie wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4587834\/thomas-kean-jr-new-jersey-gop-nominee-house-health-issue\/\"><strong>NEW JERSEY\u2019S TOM KEAN HASN\u2019T VOTED IN CONGRESS SINCE MARCH. HE\u2019S ABOUT TO BE RENOMINATED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), another member of the House Armed Services Committee, rebuked Massie\u2019s opposition, calling it the \u201cdumbest possible take\u201d and an \u201cantisemitic grift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis security agreement will allow for the US to leverage advanced Israeli technologies,\u201d Van Orden wrote. \u201cDon\u2019t you have some Epstein names to release Pedo Protector?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massie and Khanna want to remove a defense bill provision to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2912,"featured_media":2609174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-collage-zsddz1vzy-1780337497489-e1780341976397.jpg?1780327570&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[73244,6524,80633],"class_list":["post-2609173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-israel-us-relations-2","tag-netanyahu","tag-us-military-integration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-collage-zsddz1vzy-1780337497489-e1780341976397.jpg?1780327570&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609173","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\/2912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609177,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609173\/revisions\/2609177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}