{"id":219129,"date":"2026-07-23T02:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/219129\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:15:21","slug":"house-approves-gop-supported-us-israel-military-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/219129\/","title":{"rendered":"House approves GOP-supported US-Israel military integration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican-controlled\u00a0US House<\/a>\u00a0of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a record $1.15 trillion\u00a0military spending<\/a>\u00a0authorization bill containing a highly controversial provision to increase cooperation between the US and Israeli armed forces.<\/p>\n

House lawmakers\u00a0voted 219-206<\/a>, almost entirely along party lines, to pass HR 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2027.<\/p>\n

Republicans<\/a>\u00a0voted 213-1 in favor\u2014with Rep. Thomas Massey of Kentucky casting the lone\u00a0GOP<\/a>\u00a0\u201cno\u201d\u2014while Democrats voted 205-5 against the measure. Democratic Reps. Don Davis (NC), Jared Golden (Maine<\/a>), Adam Gray (Calif.), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas<\/a>), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.) voted \u201cyes.\u201d Independent Rep. Kevin Kiley of California also voted in favor of the bill.<\/p>\n

Massie and Rep.\u00a0Ro Khanna<\/a>\u00a0(D-Calif.) submitted an amendment to strip Section 219\u2014which would integrate American and Israeli research and development\u2014from the proposed NDAA.<\/p>\n

Rep.\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>\u00a0(D-NY) on Tuesday\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0the NDAA \u201can existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Massie\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cour founders would be appalled at what Congress is doing now.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Rep.\u00a0Ilhan Omar<\/a>\u00a0(D-Minn.)\u00a0described<\/a>\u00a0Section 219 as \u201can outrageous threat to our country\u2019s security and autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans want no part in Netanyahu\u2019s genocidal regime,\u201d she added, referring to\u00a0fugitive<\/a>\u00a0Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>. \u201cCongress cannot continue to bankroll Israel\u2019s campaign of terror. Voting NO.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the House Rules Committee blocked debate on the proposal, which remains in the legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to now fight to strip this amendment in the conference between the House and the Senate,\u201d Khanna said.<\/p>\n

In addition to Section 219, another provision of the proposed NDAA, Section 622, also remains in the legislation. The measure would \u201cexpand and enhance intelligence sharing\u201d with Israel, and limit restrictions on such cooperation.<\/p>\n

As controversial as 219 is, the primary driver of Democratic opposition to the NDAA was Republican leadership\u2019s use of a procedural rule to automatically\u00a0merge the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act\u00a0into the military spending package. The legislation\u2014which has been strongly pushed by President Donald Trump\u2014mandates proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Democrats heavily opposed attaching a controversial voting measure to a must-pass national security bill.<\/p>\n

An amendment that would have made Trump\u2019s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the\u00a0US military<\/a>\u00a0permanent was\u00a0narrowly defeated<\/a>\u00a0as Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) and Mike Lawler (NY), along with GOP Delegates Kimberlyn Kay King-Hinds of the Northern Mariana Islands and James Moylan of Guam, broke ranks with their party and voted against it.<\/p>\n

The proposed NDAA now goes to the Senate, where upper chamber lawmakers will consider their own version of the legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans are saying loudly and clearly: No more US military support for the extremist Netanyahu government,\u201d Sen.\u00a0Bernie Sanders<\/a>\u00a0(I-Vt.)\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0after the House vote. \u201cThat is why Congress must vote NO on the defense spending bill, which brings the US and Israeli militaries even closer together.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republican-controlled\u00a0US House\u00a0of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of a record $1.15 trillion\u00a0military spending\u00a0authorization bill containing a highly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[41,31571,496,37,42771,63226,63227,77],"class_list":["post-219129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-block-3","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-rep-ro-khanna","tag-rep-thomas-massey","tag-sen-ro-khanna","tag-us-israel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116966884800316779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}