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These 37 House Democrats and 21 Republicans voted against Israel aid

Bryan Metzger   

These 37 House Democrats and 21 Republicans voted against Israel aid
  • The House passed a bill to provide military aid to Israel and humanitarian aid for Gaza.
  • It's part of a package that includes Ukraine aid and is likely to pass the Senate next week.

The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a bill that includes more than $14 billion in military aid to Israel and more than $9 billion in humanitarian aid, much of which will go to Gaza.

The bill passed by a 366-58 margin, but dozens of progressive Democrats — and a cohort hard-right Republicans — voted against it.

Under an unconventional plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson, the bill will be sent to the Senate as part of a package that includes aid for Ukraine and Taiwan and a third bill that forces a sale of TikTok and allows the United States to confiscate Russian assets. Lawmakers voted individually on each component.

The combined bill closely mirrors a $95.3 billion national security bill passed by the Senate in February. Three senators voted against that package over the Israel aid.

President Joe Biden has pledged to sign the bill into law after it passes the Senate in the coming days, a move that could anger those on the progressive left who have called for him to take a different approach to Israel's war in Gaza, where over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed.

It's not the first time in recent months that Democrats have voted en masse against Israel aid. They've become more comfortable doing so amid the devastation in Gaza.

In November, all but 12 of them voted against a bill that would have paired Israel aid with cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, a non-starter for Democrats. And in February, just 46 Democrats voted for an Israel aid bill that didn't include those cuts, with Democrats largely taking the position that they wanted to see Ukraine aid paired with Israel aid.

14 House Republicans voted against the latter Israel aid bill in February, with many citing the cost of the aid.

But Saturday's vote was different — this bill is all but certain to be signed into law, and the significant number of Democrats who voted against Israel aid shows how quickly the issue has shifted in recent months.

"To give the Netanyahu government more offensive weapons at this stage is to condone the utter destruction of Gaza we've seen over the last seven months and risks fueling a deadly regional war," said Rep. Becca Balint of Vermont, a progressive Jewish Democrat, in a statement ahead of her vote. "The United States cannot continue to support the extreme offensive that has caused unimaginable suffering to the Palestinian people."

Here are the 21 Republicans who voted against the bill:

  • Andy Biggs of Arizona

  • Lauren Boebert of Colorado

  • Tim Burchett of Tennessee

  • Andrew Clyde of Georgia

  • Eli Crane of Arizona

  • Warren Davidson of Ohio

  • Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee

  • Matt Gaetz of Florida

  • Bob Good of Virginia

  • Paul Gosar of Arizona

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

  • Andy Harris of Maryland

  • Thomas Massie of Kentucky

  • Cory Mills of Florida

  • Troy Nehls of Texas

  • Ralph Norman of South Carolina

  • Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

  • Matt Rosendale of Montana

  • Chip Roy of Texas

  • Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin

  • Ryan Zinke of Montana

Here are the 37 Democrats who voted against the bill:

  • Becca Balint of Vermont

  • Don Beyer of Virginia

  • Earl Blumenauer of Oregon

  • Jamaal Bowman of New York

  • Cori Bush of Missouri

  • Andre Carson of Indiana

  • Greg Casar of Texas

  • Joaquin Castro of Texas

  • Judy Chu of California

  • Mark DeSaulnier of California

  • Lloyd Doggett of Texas

  • Maxwell Frost of Florida

  • John Garamendi of California

  • Chuy García of Illinois

  • Al Green of Texas

  • Jonathan Jackson of Illinois

  • Pramila Jayapal of Washington

  • Hank Johnson of Georgia

  • Ro Khanna of California

  • Dan Kildee of Michigan

  • Barbara Lee of California

  • Summer Lee of Pennsylvania

  • Jim McGovern of Massachusetts

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York

  • Ilhan Omar of Minnesota

  • Chellie Pingree of Maine

  • Mark Pocan of Wisconsin

  • Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts

  • Delia Ramirez of Illinois

  • Jamie Raskin of Maryland

  • Mark Takano of California

  • Bennie Thompson of Mississippi

  • Rashida Tlaib of Michigan

  • Jill Tokuda of Hawaii

  • Nydia Velázquez of New York

  • Maxine Waters of California

  • Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey



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