{"id":15252,"date":"2024-02-08T00:47:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/jeffries-hints-at-bipartisan-talks-skirting-house-gop-leadership-on-ukraine-israel-aid\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T00:47:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:47:24","slug":"jeffries-hints-at-bipartisan-talks-skirting-house-gop-leadership-on-ukraine-israel-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/jeffries-hints-at-bipartisan-talks-skirting-house-gop-leadership-on-ukraine-israel-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries hints at bipartisan talks skirting House GOP leadership on Ukraine, Israel aid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., suggested that Republicans and Democrats are discussing a way to force comprehensive global security aid through Congress behind the backs of House GOP leaders.<\/p>\n

\u2018There are several Republicans who are not in leadership, who have reached out to my colleagues on the Democratic side here in the House, to indicate a willingness to work together to advance a comprehensive national security package,\u2019 Jeffries said at his weekly press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

House Republicans faced two major setbacks on Tuesday night when legislation aimed at impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and a standalone bill giving $17.6 billion to Israel both failed along bipartisan lines.<\/p>\n

The Israel bill was Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s bid to undercut negotiations between the Senate and White House on a $118 billion supplemental security package with aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and Gaza and that also included conservative border policy reforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But an avalanche of GOP opposition since the text was released on Sunday has put the deal on \u2018life support,\u2019 as Johnson, R-La., put it during a Tuesday press conference.<\/p>\n

Jeffries during his own press conference on Wednesday acknowledged reports that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is getting ready to put a security bill without border policy up for a vote, something several Republican senators have suggested they would support.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said Republican lawmakers in the House have approached Democrats looking for pathways for a similar proposal.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019ll see what the Senate does in a few hours. But either way, here in the House of Representatives, the only way forward is for Democrats and Republicans to come together to meet the national security needs of the American people in a bipartisan fashion, and that is exactly what we are committed to do in the next few days,\u2019 Jeffries said.<\/p>\n

In answer to a question by Fox News Digital, Jeffries said several Republicans have discussed with Democrats a package \u2018that meets the needs of Israel in a time of war, Ukraine who are fighting for their lives in a brave and courageous fashion against brutal Russian aggression, as well as our allies in the Indo Pacific like Japan and South Korea who are dealing with the threat of China and North Korea, and of course provides humanitarian assistance to civilians who are in harm\u2019s way.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018There are Republicans, we believe, who have increasingly recognized that the \u2018my way or the highway\u2019 approach of MAGA extremists is not working,\u2019 Jeffries said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, House conservatives who opposed Johnson\u2019s Israel aid bill, specifically because it did not offset the $17 billion with spending cuts elsewhere, appear to be working on their own proposal to help the Middle Eastern ally.<\/p>\n

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital there are \u2018ongoing conversations\u2019 to shape a conservative Israel aid bill that would pair it with either policy changes or spending cuts.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re having ongoing conversations about what we need to do to stand with Israel, but do it responsibly,\u2019 Roy said. \u2018Which means we\u2019ve got to factor in paying for it, or, and\/or dealing with UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) and all of the ridiculous things this administration is doing to fund Israel\u2019s enemies\u2026and\/or, what can we do about our own border.\u2019<\/p>\n\n

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., suggested that Republicans and Democrats are discussing a way to force comprehensive global security aid through Congress behind the backs of House GOP leaders. \u2018There are several Republicans who are not in leadership, who have reached out to my colleagues on the Democratic side here in the House, to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}