From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Taverny Sea, and this is the Daily.

It's been one month since the attack on Israel, but Washington has yet to deliver an aid package to its closest ally.

The reason has to do with a different ally in a different war.

Today, my colleague Katie Edmondson, on the battle within the Republican Party

over whether to keep funding Ukraine.

It's Tuesday, November 7th.

Katie, nice to see you.

Good to see you, Sabrina.

Where am I catching you? I see some very ornate mirrors in the background.

Yeah, it's my house, actually, no, I'm in the Senate Press Gallery, which also I apologize for any noise in the background.

So Katie, okay, we're going to ignore the noise and we're going to just dive into it here.

We spent a lot of time over the past year talking about the many

battles playing out on Capitol Hill. Of course the most recent one was the fight

among House Republicans over who would become Speaker. But the war between Hamas and Israel has created a whole

new battle in Congress and that's over the question of funding foreign wars.

Israel is of course a very close ally of the United States and as you know

normally we throw tons of money at our close ally and no one would really question it

but it sounds like that's not what's happening right now so tell me what's going on

that's right I mean we're in kind of a striking moment where we're about a month

in after the war broke out and Congress has yet to send any emergency aid to Israel

and actually at the moment is not close to doing so. The House introduced this

sharply partisan bill for Israel funding last week,

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