As I wrote on Saturday, the House Republicans got tired of waiting for the Senate to get its act together and release what was thought to be a $106 billion supplemental foreign aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, and to shore up security on the U.S. Southern border.
To that end, Speaker Mike Johnson announced that his conference will be voting on a “clean, standalone” bill with support for Israel next week–but leaving out the onerous part that Democrats didn’t like: cutting monies for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
READ: Johnson Gets the Jump on Senate’s $106B Bill, Announces House Vote on ‘Clean, Standalone’ Israel Aid
But now that the bill is out, it turns out that it’s not the $106 billion boondoggle I wrote about. It’s even more bloated than that. Try $118 billion–and only $20 billion of it is to secure our national border:
The 370-page bill came together after…
