{"id":76108,"date":"2026-07-14T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/top-house-democrats-vow-to-oppose-bid-to-cut-us-military-aid-to-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:54:58","slug":"top-house-democrats-vow-to-oppose-bid-to-cut-us-military-aid-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/top-house-democrats-vow-to-oppose-bid-to-cut-us-military-aid-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Top House Democrats vow to oppose bid to cut US military aid to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, calls amendment \u2018overly broad\u2019 as party grapples with backlash over Israel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/14\/ice-shooting-maine-texas-trump-immigration-politics\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top House Democrats split on Tuesday over a proposal to block aid for Israel\u2019s military, with two of the party\u2019s highest-ranking lawmakers saying they will oppose the effort while the chair of the progressive caucus encouraged his colleagues to back the defunding.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over an amendment introduced by Republican congressman Thomas Massie to halt $3.3bn in aid for Israel \u2013 the majority of which would go to its military \u2013 comes as Democrats grapple with a rebellion among their voters over the party\u2019s support for the Middle Eastern ally, which has fueled the defeats of a series of congressional incumbents in recent primaries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/14\/us-military-aid-israel-house-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, calls amendment \u2018overly broad\u2019 as party grapples with backlash over Israel US politics live \u2013 latest updates Top House Democrats split on Tuesday over a proposal to block aid for Israel\u2019s military, with two of the party\u2019s highest-ranking lawmakers saying they will oppose the effort while the chair of the &#8230; <a title=\"Top House Democrats vow to oppose bid to cut US military aid to Israel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/top-house-democrats-vow-to-oppose-bid-to-cut-us-military-aid-to-israel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Top House Democrats vow to oppose bid to cut US military aid to Israel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}