A slim majority of voting Democrats defied leader Jeffries, backing failed Massie amendment to cut $3.3 billion

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    does that GDP number include the billions we give them in aid? We give them far far far more than the 3.8 billion thats advertised. 3.8 billion directly plus another 12.5 billion in military aid just in 2024. And I imagine similar in 2025 but dont have the data. What could America have done with a spare ~17 billion? and thats not even counting the horrifyingly expensive missiles we expend to protect them, military operations in the region to benefit them, the wars we engage in at their whim that only serve their interests. When you factor in the wars we are probably a trillion dollars into supporting these genocidal chucklefucks.

    https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-aid-israel-four-charts

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      Yes, Israel is playing build-a-Reich and America is paying for it.

      However, that’s not the reason why Americans are struggling - monstrous income inequality and zero social policies are the main ones.

      Go out and vote out every incumbent bloodsucker out in primaries, like in the recent NY primaries.

      Keep it up for 6 years, and it will cause a literal revolution in America.

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      What could America have done with a spare ~17 billion?

      COULD have done a lot, WOULD probably just squander it on wars, tax breaks for billionaires, and subsidies for the companies of billionaires.