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House Democrats who voted against cutting US aid to Israel received three times as much money from pro-Israel donors as those who voted in favor. (Median = 3.1 times as much.)
Democrats who voted against the amendment accepted an average of $348,239; those who voted in favor received $115,932 on average. All together, $34 million in pro-Israel cash was behind the votes against cutting aid to Israel.
Did the money actually buy votes? Or did the money simply help keep in office politicians who are comfortable ignoring voters?1 Neither option is very good.
While I’m sure there’s a bunch of hoops they need to jump thru, they even get free hormones/surgery for gender reassignments…
Like, it’s honestly wild that republican voters don’t have a problem with their tax dollars paying for all this stuff overseas when they don’t think we can/should get it ourselves.
Hell, look at how gleeful they were cutting domestic disease monitoring to save a few million. Why keep sending money to Israel?
As long as the Israelis are killing people MAGA hates, that’s all that matters to them.