Package passed Senate late Friday night by vote of 74-24, narrowly averting shutdown and banning Gaza aid through March 2025
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a $1.2tn budget bill to keep the US government funded through a fiscal year that began six months ago and to avert a partial shutdown, according to a statement released by the White House.
“The bipartisan funding bill I just signed keeps the government open, invests in the American people, and strengthens our economy and national security,” Biden said in the statement.
The bill was passed in the Senate after midnight in a vote that fell 74-24. It came after funding had expired for government agencies, but the White House sent out a notice shortly after the deadline announcing the Office of Management and Budget had ceased shutdown preparations because there was a high degree of confidence that Congress would pass the legislation and the president would sign it on Saturday.
All three, House, Senate and President, need to agree to the same budget. As Republicans control (on paper) everything but the presidency it’s not like Biden has true agency. If he grandstands on the UNRWA funding here the shutdown that would follow would be squarely on Biden. Thousands of American government employees wouldn’t be paid and people relying on the federal government for aid and support would be out in the cold.
The fact of the matter is that the average American voter care more about the US doing well and everything working than they do about Palestine in general and the UNRWA funding specifically.
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You legitimately believe Biden is reluctant?
He literally led the charge and banned the aid himself till it could be passed legislatively…
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congress-deal-bars-us-funds-unrwa-until-march-2025-sources-say-2024-03-19/
You’re being downvoted here because you set the goalpost as “Biden shouldn’t sign this pro-Israel, anti-palestine budget because he’ll lose the election” when that is refuted you then move it to “Biden wants to sign this budget, you’re dumb if you think he’s reluctant”. I don’t think he’s reluctant, but not because he today wants to block aid to UNRWA, because he as a life long career politician knows there’s no such thing as a bill you support 100% if you reach 51% that’s good enough.
Biden wants to defund UNRWA, that’s why he didn’t it on his own before Congress did with legislation.
That hurts him with voters with a sense of empathy.
Implying Biden is reluctant to defend UNRWA has zero basis in reality.
And the justification used to defend it is more flawed than what lead to the Iraq war.
Shit has consequences. And it’s often complicated, but I’m trying to communicate it as simply as possible.
It’s not “moving the goalposts” it’s addressing things as they come up because trying to cover everything in perfect detail wouldnt be a social media comment, it would be a serious of books so long no one is ever going to read it.
If different accounts bring up different specificities, they’re going to get different explanations. Because there’s lots of things that go into shit this complicated.