Mike Brest is a defense reporter at the Washington Examiner. Prior to joining the defense beat, he spent two years covering breaking news for the Examiner, and he worked at the Daily Caller in a similar capacity before that. Mike graduated from American University and is originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise defended his party's bill that would offset United States aid to Israel with cuts to the Internal Revenue Service.
The House of Representatives voted last week in favor of a $14.3 billion aid package to Israel, but the offsetting cuts to the IRS prompted Democratic opposition and criticism. Only 12 House Democrats voted in favor of it, while two Republicans voted against it, and the Democratically-controlled Senate has indicated the bill is dead on arrival.
Despite Scalise's claim, estimates show the cut to the IRS wouldn't pay for the bill and would actually increase the nation’s debt over the course of a decade, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office released earlier this week. The CBO said that the bill would decrease revenue by $26.7 billion and add $12.5 billion to the deficit over the next decade.
President Joe Biden sent a supplemental funding request totaling more than $100 billion last month, and the White House has said he would veto the bill the House passed last week if it came to his desk."The bill that they're currently putting forward inserts partisanship into support for Israel and makes a key ally a pawn of politics," deputy press secretary Emilie Simons told reporters last week.
New House Speaker Mike Johnson pursued the individualized aid package to Israel following weeks of instability in the House due to the Republican Party's inability to elect a speaker.
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