Democrats block Senate from taking up House-passed Israel bill

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Democrats block Senate from taking up House-passed Israel bill
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Democrats rejected an attempt by Senate conservatives to vote on the House's Israel bill on Tuesday as Washington fights over whether to consider the aid on its own or as part of a broader national security package.

Republican leadership in the Senate supports that approach but faces resistance from members of their conference frustrated by the United States's open-ended commitment to the conflict. “What if it were your family in these body bags?" he said on the Senate floor, standing in front of photos from the Oct. 7 invasion.

In a series of floor speeches, Democrats railed on the IRS cuts, saying it was Republicans, not them, playing partisan games. Murray called the offsets a"giveaway to billionaires" while noting the Congressional Budget Office projected they would actually add to the deficit.

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