Republicans easily passed the emergency funding bill for Israel in the House this evening by a vote of 226-196.

They gained 12 votes from Democrats and lost two Republican votes:

 
The bill provides what appears to be around $8.7 billion in emergency funding to the state of Israel as they fight a war against Hamas:

Of course Biden says he’s going to veto the ‘only Israel’ bill and Schumer says he isn’t going to take it up in the Senate. We’ll see.

The two Republicans who voted against the bill were Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie. Greene claims she’s ‘America first’ and that’s why she voted against it:

Yes, we have an open border and it’s all Biden’s fault. I agree. But that doesn’t mean we can’t aid an ally whose very existence is under siege right now by enemies all sides.

Massie says we can’t afford it and that’s why he voted no:

I don’t disagree either. But we spend money on a lot of things we can’t afford and if we’re going to spend our hard-earned tax dollars somewhere, I’d rather it be heading to Israel in their time of need.