cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33488629
By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 20:59 BSTHardline America Firster and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to strip Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.
The House of Representatives, however, rejected in a 422-6 vote on Thursday, to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program - an agreement through which the US provides Israel with $500m to boost its missile programmes.
It is a separate allocation from the $3.3bn the US sends Israel as “security assistance” every year.
Of which, roughly speaking about 23% are under 18 and school-aged if census.gov is to be trusted
Around $40 per student could still do an incredible amount of good across our national school system. A given school’s graduating class might range anywhere from 50-2,000 students and you’ll have 3-4 of those per school. That’s potentially $320,000 for a single large school by this napkin math assuming those funds are distributed perfectly evenly according to student population. If put to more strategic use this could be an incredible boon to lower income schools in many, many areas.