{"id":76171,"date":"2026-07-16T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/a-house-vote-makes-it-clear-israels-support-among-democrats-is-starting-to-buckle\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:54:45","slug":"a-house-vote-makes-it-clear-israels-support-among-democrats-is-starting-to-buckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/a-house-vote-makes-it-clear-israels-support-among-democrats-is-starting-to-buckle\/","title":{"rendered":"A House vote makes it clear: Israel\u2019s support among Democrats is starting to buckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 Democrats voted to cut military aid to Israel as US public opinion shifts \u2013 Republicans are noticing too<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in the days before Wednesday\u2019s vote, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/hakeem-jeffries\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, the House minority leader, sat down and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000019f-612e-d1ae-a3bf-63bedf180000\">wrote his caucus a letter<\/a> urging Democrats to reject an amendment that would strip security assistance to Israel. For most of his tenure as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democratic<\/a> leader, that kind of internal whipping operation would have been unnecessary, because the outcome would have been assumed.<\/p>\n<p>His own second-in-command voted the other way anyway.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/16\/democrats-israel-support\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 Democrats voted to cut military aid to Israel as US public opinion shifts \u2013 Republicans are noticing too Somewhere in the days before Wednesday\u2019s vote, Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, sat down and wrote his caucus a letter urging Democrats to reject an amendment that would strip security assistance to Israel. &#8230; <a title=\"A House vote makes it clear: Israel\u2019s support among Democrats is starting to buckle\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/a-house-vote-makes-it-clear-israels-support-among-democrats-is-starting-to-buckle\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A House vote makes it clear: Israel\u2019s support among Democrats is starting to buckle\">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-76171","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\/76171","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=76171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}