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A House vote makes it clear: Israel's support among Democrats is starting to buckle
A House vote makes it clear: Israel's support among Democrats is starting to buckle.
More than 100 Democrats voted to cut military aid to Israel as US public opinion shifts -- Republicans are noticing too.
The amendment itself, offered by the Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie, would have eliminated $3.3bn in security assistance to Israel from the state department appropriations bill. As expected, it failed, 314-104. But 103 House Democrats -- nearly half the caucus -- voted for it. Nancy Pelosi, one of Congress's longest-serving defenders of the US-Israel relationship, joined them, later calling the amendment "ill-conceived" while saying she supported it "for the message that it sends."
Katherine Clark, the House minority whip, broke publicly with the position Hakeem Jeffries had spent days defending. The significance isn't that one senior Democrat defected, but that the party's chief consensus builder, and more than 100 other Democrats, broke ranks.
Republican leaders made Massie's amendment eligible for floor consideration, a cynical move that could be seen as an attempt to force politically uncomfortable votes for Democrats ahead of the midterms.
Wednesday's vote may or may not be brushed aside in the coming news cycles. But the pattern it revealed won't be: a bipartisan floor that has held for 50 years is buckling from both directions at once.