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WASHINGTON \u2015 Senate Democrats discussed the prospect of placing conditions on a $14.3 billion Israel military aid package during their weekly caucus meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussion marks another possible legislative snarl as Congress negotiates a massive defense supplemental President Joe Biden has requested<\/a> for Israel, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific and the southern U.S. border. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., indicated Monday that he\u2019s open to a separate Ukraine aid vote but Republicans are now asking for policy changes on the southern border before passing the supplemental request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden proposed no Israel aid conditions in his supplemental request but called the idea \u201ca worthwhile thought\u201d on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut I don\u2019t think if I started off with that we ever would have gotten to where we are today,\u201d he added, referring to a temporary hostages-for-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that began last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., one of Israel\u2019s staunchest supporters, told reporters after the meeting that he would discuss the idea further with the Biden administration and lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been spoken out in our caucus meeting on many occasions and today there was a meeting with [National Security Adviser] Jake Sullivan on the issue,\u201d said Schumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are different views on that, and we\u2019re going to have a discussion with the caucus and the administration, but above all we\u2019ve got to pass the four bills,\u201d he added, referring to Biden\u2019s $106 billion defense supplemental request<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told reporters after the caucus meeting that senators discussed equipping Israel to fight Hamas while decreasing civilian casualties in Gaza and ramping up humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave on top of reducing Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to do an aid package, but we\u2019re going to put expectations as we would for other countries,\u201d said Kaine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., lambasted Democrats\u2019 discussions on Israel aid on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Senate Democrats want to vote to tie the hands of Israeli soldiers as they defend their country against vicious terrorists, I welcome such a debate,\u201d he said on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McConnell also demanded changes to the Biden administration\u2019s border policies in the supplemental, but it\u2019s unclear what sort of concessions Democrats are willing to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some pro-Israel Democrats including Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Ben Cardin of Maryland also oppose Israel aid conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Biden\u2019s $14.3 billion request, Israel receives an annual $3.8 billion in U.S. military aid each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., first called for the conditions last week in a statement insisting \u201cthat not one penny will be coming to Israel from the U.S. unless there is a fundamental change in their military and political positions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders called for \u201can end to indiscriminate bombing which has taken thousands of civilian lives,\u201d the right of displaced Palestinians in Gaza to return home, no long-term Israeli re-occupation of the strip, a freeze on West Bank settlement expansion and a commitment to peace talks for a two-state solution following the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip has killed approximately 15,000 Palestinians<\/a> per the Gaza Health Ministry and internally displaced more than 1.7 million<\/a> of the enclave\u2019s approximately 2.2 million people. Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 massacre that sparked the war killed roughly 1,200 Israelis per the Israel Defense Forces, or IDF. Israeli forces and settlers have also killed more than 200 Palestinians in the West Bank since Oct. 7, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After leveling most of northern Gaza, Israel dropped leaflets last weekend telling Palestinians to leave Khan Younis in southern Gaza<\/a>, raising fears of even more displacement and civilian casualties after the ceasefire ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., organized a briefing on Monday with senior IDF officials with more than a dozen Senate Democrats, with some raising concerns about the Palestinian civilian casualties and humanitarian situation in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted my colleagues to see exactly where the IDF was and what their plans are moving into the future and what are the next phases that they\u2019re looking at,\u201d Duckworth said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine and Indo-Pacific<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Duckworth also noted that she\u2019s \u201cconcerned\u201d about the timeline for passing both Israel aid and $61 billion worth of military and economic aid for Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine is running out of munitions and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Congress in September that Kyiv would lose the war against Russia\u2019s invasion<\/a> if the U.S. fails to provide additional aid. The Biden administration has less than $5 billion in drawdown authority to continue arming Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson, the new House speaker who has previously voted against Ukraine assistance, expressed confidence on Monday that Congress will pass both Ukraine and Israel aid. Still, numerous members in his caucus have expressed opposition to combining both in one package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOf course, we can\u2019t allow Vladimir Putin to march through Europe,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cAnd we understand the necessity of assisting there. What we\u2019ve said is that if there is to be additional assistance to Ukraine \u2014 which most members of Congress believe is important \u2014 we have to also work on changing our own border policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House passed 226-196 a stand-alone Israel aid bill<\/a> based on Biden\u2019s supplemental request earlier this month, but Senate Democrats ignored it because it added $14.3 billion in cuts to the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile Rep. Mike Gallagher<\/a>, R-Wis., and several other Republicans on the China Committee he chairs are pushing for a $12 billion plus-up the Indo-Pacific portion of Biden\u2019s request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House supplemental asked for $2 billion on Foreign Military Financing for Indo-Pacific allies, including Taiwan, and $3.4 billion to expand the submarine-industrial base to help implement the trilateral AUKUS agreement with Australia and Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo appropriately meet the urgency of the [Chinese Communist Party] threat, we need to go further than the supplemental request,\u201d Gallagher wrote to Johnson, Schumer and McConnell. \u201cThe Indo-Pacific, our priority theater, must not be an afterthought.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gallagher\u2019s proposal would add another $2 billion to backfill U.S. weapons sent to Taiwan under presidential drawdown authority and another $10 billion for munitions and military construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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