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- 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.
- Dozens of progressive Democrats — and some hard-right Republicans — voted against it.
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