Right now the Biden administration is dealing with two major military conflicts in two separate parts of the world.

And the desire to actually secure funding for the conflicts involving Israel and Ukraine was supposed to be, it was supposed to be the reason that

moderate Republicans voted in a far, voted in a far right speaker of the House.

With the intra party war over House leadership resolved, the idea was that those

emergencies would finally be dealt with, at least that was the idea.

Today it became painfully obvious that the Republicans new speaker, Congressman Mike Johnson,

is not really going to deal with any of it.

This evening, Speaker Johnson put every Republican on the record voting for a bill that did not include any aid to Ukraine

and which would provide aid to Israel only on the condition that Congress defunded the IRS to allow billionaires to cheat on their taxes.

We have obligations and we have commitments and we want to protect and help and assist our friend Israel, but we have to keep our own house in order as well.

You're just saying you will not pass Israel Aid bill unless it's offset.

Is that the correct interpretation of your... That's what we're going to do. I did not attach that for political purposes okay I

attached it because again we're trying to get back to the principle of fiscal

responsibility here. Okay before we go any further here, it has to be pointed out that a bill that cuts

funding to the IRS does not do anything to get back to the principle of fiscal responsibility.

In fact, the head of the IRS estimates that cutting that funding would actually cost the US $90 billion in tax revenue, which is plainly obvious.

If you defund the tax police for rich people,

rich people end up paying less taxes.

It should be noted that Speaker Johnson and House Republicans are once again very concerned about the debt with a Democrat in the White House.

They were far less concerned when Donald Trump added almost $8 dollars to the debt in a single term, in part

due to massive tax cuts that Republicans passed to benefit the wealthy.

I see a pattern here.

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