Battle brews over Israel aid as White House accuses Republicans of ‘politicizing national security’ – US politics live – The Guardian US

Yesterday, CNN heard from the Senate’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who signaled that the cuts to the IRS proposed by Mike Johnson and the House Republicans would be unacceptable.

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Schumer’s support is essential for getting any bill through Congress’s upper chamber. Joe Biden and his allies, along with some Republicans including Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, want aid for Israel and Ukraine approved in the same bill –not separately, as Johnson had proposed.

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Here’s what Schumer had to say:

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New — House Rs unveil $14.3B aid package for Israel — with rescission on IRS funding.
Schumer just told us: "Obviously, a pay for like that makes it much harder to pass."
Spending cuts typically not part of emergency aid packages

Schumer says Ukraine should be included also pic.twitter.com/agFr7eVeqM

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 30, 2023

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. Joe Biden and many lawmakers in Congress, Democrat and Republican alike, want to send Israel billions of dollars in aid to help its increasingly controversial fight against Hamas, but the request appears destined for Washington DC’s partisan meat grinder. Late yesterday, Mike Johnson, the newly installed Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, made good on expectations he would bring a far-right approach to the job by introducing a bill to send $14.3b to Israel that would be paid for by cutting from the Internal Revenue Service’s budget. You might remember that the tax authority received a big funding infusion last year from the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden’s signature legislative accomplishment, and Republicans have been trying to rescind that money ever since.

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The proposal is sure to satisfy Johnson’s conservative supporters but will almost certainly be rejected by the Democratic-led Senate, where many Republicans may also vote against it because it lacks funding for Ukraine – as Biden had also requested. “Threatening to undermine American national security unless House Republicans can help the wealthy and big corporations cheat on their taxes – which would increase the deficit – is the definition of backwards,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said after the bill was released. Expect plenty of squabbling over this today and the days to come.

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Here’s what else is going on:

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• The Democratic-led Senate judiciary committee said it would vote on sending subpoenas to Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo and Robin Arkley II, all conservatives who have been involved in organizing luxury trips for supreme court justices.

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• Earl Blumenauer, a longtime Democratic congressman from Oregon, announced he will step down when his term is up. He represents a strongly blue district around Portland.

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• Jean-Pierre will brief reporters at 1pm eastern time, along with National Security Counsel spokesman John Kirby.

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