Congress's Debate on U.S. Aid to Israel and Ukraine
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:40.0 | The jockeying begins on Capitol Hill between Republicans and Democrats, |
| 0:44.0 | but also between the House and the Senate over USA to Israel, Ukraine, and more. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with The Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:54.0 | We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Kate Batchel, |
| 0:58.0 | Dr. Odell, and columnist Kim Strassel. |
| 1:02.0 | President Biden has made a request of about $106 billion, $14 billion for Israel, $62 billion |
| 1:10.0 | roughly for Ukraine, $9 billion for humanitarian aid, including in Gaza, |
| 1:16.0 | and $7.4 billion for the Indo-Pacific. |
| 1:20.0 | We are now having a debate on Capitol Hill between whether to move pieces of this as one package |
| 1:26.0 | or items as stand-alone bills. |
| 1:29.0 | And let's start with the new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, on Fox News Sunday, |
| 1:34.0 | making the argument for taking these one at a time. |
| 1:37.0 | We're going to move a stand-alone Israel funding bill this week in the House. |
| 1:41.0 | I know our colleagues, our Republican colleagues in the Senate have a similar measure. |
| 1:46.0 | We believe that that is a pressing and urgent need. |
| 1:49.0 | There are lots of things going on around the world that we have to address, and we will. |
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