House Democrats are warning Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that not including humanitarian aid in his foreign aid package could poison it for their side, Axios reports.

Said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.): “There is no circumstance that we could support anything that does not include humanitarian aid"

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    7 months ago

    The US does nothing without strings attached. If it weren’t for all those strings, other countries wouldn’t need foreign aid.

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      7 months ago

      Nonsense… you act as if the whole world would be a hippy paradise if it weren’t for the evil colonial powers.

      The amount of savagery people bestow on one another for reasons sometimes not even know to the purpotrators is mind boggling.