Congress on winter vacation, leaving Biden’s aid for Ukraine, Israel in limbo

The United States Congress has gone on a winter break without coming to an agreement on a nearly $100 billion weapons package, which would have funded wars in Israel, Ukraine, the Red Sea, Taiwan and elsewhere for many years.

The bill had been passed by the Democrat led Senate but the Republican majority House of Representatives refused to vote on it in a setback to President Joe Biden's war planning.

Let me be clear here again this morning.

The Republican led house will not be jammed or forced into passing a foreign aid bill that was opposed by most Republican senators and does nothing to secure our own border.

Mike Johnson, Speaker, US House of Representatives

• Congress rejects President Biden's latest war spending bill
  

  Republicans reject Biden’s latest military package for Israel, Ukraine

  It’s another setback for the war hawks in Washington, as Congress has rejected President Joe Biden

Earlier this month, Biden unsuccessfully tried to force through a $120 billion war spending bill, which tried to win over Republicans with $20 billion in anti immigrant border security spending.

While top polling agencies have mostly remained silent on the issue so far this year, the most recent polls confirmed that public support for more weapons to fuel foreign wars has plummeted.

• Military support for Israel
  

  US pledges more military support for Israel

  The Israeli killing machine has continued its assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, with the regime forces boasting about how they have struck 300 targets in 24 hours, which included a series of hospitals and homes.

There is an increasingly vocal desire to end American war mongering abroad and to focus American money, energy, and, attention, on the raft of post pandemic, and post great financial crisis, domestic problems.

The situation here on the ground definitely can be radicalizing because people are not even being provided with any of the usual concessions that Imperial nations often give their citizens to keep them distracted.

They're just being left out there while we are giving billions and trillions to other countries to fight wars that are, supposedly, on our behalf and yet we don't get to have any input in that.

Akua Nkansa, Black Alliance for Peace

• US continues to double down on its support for Israel
  

  US continues to double down on its support for Israel

  ‘The United States will remain Israel

The Biden administration has repeatedly rejected any negotiated settlement to the Ukraine conflict, and has no strings attached to its unshakable support for Tel Aviv.

Many say it's just a matter of time before more weapons are eventually sent to Israel and Ukraine, despite the global outcry,

We have to remember that these wars go on until America is defeated.

Eventually the public turns against every war and the war keeps going until it's no longer useful to big business and it's no longer useful to defeating our rivals and corralling the world's energy resources.

Sean Reynolds, Political Analyst

The failed bill explicitly prohibited the provision of any funds for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, which is the main humanitarian agency in Gaza.

• US faces isolation for aiding and abetting Gaza genocide
  

  US faces isolation for aiding and abetting Gaza genocide, defying world opinion

  While the majority world opinion is in support of the Palestinian people and the ceasefire in Gaza, the United States has been repeatedly blocking the UN resolutions calling for a halt in Israeli aggression.

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