{"id":798928,"date":"2021-09-21T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=798928"},"modified":"2021-09-21T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T19:15:10","slug":"democrats-scrap-1-billion-in-israeli-defense-funding-from-bill-that-was-already-doomed-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-scrap-1-billion-in-israeli-defense-funding-from-bill-that-was-already-doomed-to-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Scrap $1 Billion In Israeli Defense Funding From Bill That Was Already Doomed To Fail"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fdemocrats-scrap-1-billion-in-israeli-defense-funding-from-bill-that-was-already-doomed-to-fail%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=798928&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"46.128331688055\">\n<p>House Democrats will remove a provision replenishing Israel\u2019s Iron Dome defense system from their government funding bill after progressives objected to it, even though the bill has no chance of passing the Senate regardless.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/democrats-unveil-government-funding-debt-ceiling-bill-gop-oppose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiled the bill<\/a> earlier Tuesday, and its House Rules Committee markup was delayed after progressives voiced their concerns. Though the House is set to pass the bill later Tuesday, it is considered dead-on-arrival in the Senate, where Republicans are unanimously opposed.<\/p>\n<p>The bill couples government funding through Dec. 3 with a debt ceiling suspension, the source of Republicans\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/15\/think-im-bluffing-mitch-mcconnell-doubles-down-against-debt-ceiling-raise-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposition<\/a>. They have called on Democrats to put any increase in their $3.5 trillion spending package, but Democrats have so far refused to do so. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/13\/congress-barrels-toward-debt-ceiling-catastrophe-janet-yellen-chuck-schumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Congress Barrels Toward Debt Ceiling Catastrophe)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7267168\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7267168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Josh Gottheimer was one of the moderate Democrats against the Iron Dome funding\u2019s removal. (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If passed it would avert a government shutdown set to begin on Oct. 1 and would stave off a possible nationwide debt default. It also contains billions in funding for natural disaster relief efforts and for the resettlement of Afghan refugees.<\/p>\n<p>While progressives praised the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/iron-dome-tel-aviv-israel-barrage-hamas-islamic-jihad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iron Dome<\/a> funding\u2019s removal, some Democratic moderates were unhappy with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iron Dome protects innocent civilians in Israel from terrorist attacks and some of my colleagues have now blocked funding it,\u201d New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJoshG\/status\/1440367520481832960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe must stand by our historic ally \u2014 the only democracy in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the provision was ultimately omitted, it is still set to be included in the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which Democratic leadership has said the House will vote on this week as well.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats will remove a provision replenishing Israel\u2019s Iron Dome defense system from their government funding bill after progressives objected to it, even though the bill has no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798928","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}