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.
Because you don’t understand how far a dollar can go when you invest it in productive programs.
No I don’t so can you explain it to me?
Someone else already mentioned that it’s more than half the current budget for feeding students so that could be expanded by a lot, but it’s easily enough for schools to hire a part time therapist or nurse or to get new textbooks for a subject or two.