The New York lawmaker has faced a deluge of criticism for backing funding for Israel's Iron Dome defence system for a second time

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33487836

By MEE staff
Published date: 21 July 2025 21:11 BST

The New York lawmaker voted against an amendment by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene last week that sought to block $500m in Congress’ annual defence spending bill for Israel’s Iron Dome programme.

Fellow Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar [as well as Democrats Al Green of Texas, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky - PL] had supported Taylor Greene’s amendment, which eventually lost in a 422-6 vote.

In a post on X on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Greene’s amendment did “nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza”.

  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
    57·
    13 hours ago

    So, we have MTG voting to not fund and AOC to fund? What’s going on? Is the earth now spinning in reverse or something?

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      She didn’t vote to fund, she voted against cutting the iron dome expenditures on an amendment

      It’s not a great look, but the way she’s handled it has been far more disappointing

      • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Did you actually read the article? If you did, did you catch the word salad in her X‑post? She’s basically trusting that when we say “this money is for your defense system, the Iron Dome” Israel will actually use it just for the Iron Dome, and only the Iron Dome.
        Also, does this make sense to you at all? Like do you agree with this?

        “Along with other US-funded interceptor systems, the Iron Dome has emboldened Israel to invade or bomb no less than five different countries in the past two years.”

        Israel isn’t such an honest country that they’ll use the money we send them according to our allocations. She fucked up big time and now she’s trying to defend her fuck up and is doing a terrible job.