Tangle - Separate bills for aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.

Episode Date: April 21, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson. In a closed-door meeting of Republican legislators on Monday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced a new plan for voting on foreign aid that will split the $9...5 billion foreign aid package passed by the Senate into four different bills. The House would then vote on the bills funding Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan separately, with a fourth bill addressing other Republican priorities and sources of funding for the aid. The move comes in response to pressure facing the Speaker to align divisions within his own party, which uniformly urges support for Israel but whose right flank opposes any additional funding for Ukraine. You can read today's podcast⁠ ⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠, our “Under the Radar” story ⁠here and today’s “Have a nice day” story ⁠here⁠.Watch our latest YouTube video, an interview with Edwin Raymond. He is a recently retired NYPD lieutenant, civil-rights activist and author of the riveting new memoir An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America. You can view it here.We just released the next episode of our new podcast series, The Undecideds. In episode 2, our undecided voters primarily talk about Trump’s legal troubles. How do they feel about his alleged crimes? How would him being convicted - or exonerated - change the way they vote? What about his claims he should have immunity as president? You’ll hear how they consider these major themes of the race, and also what they made of Haley dropping out and Biden’s State of the Union Address. You can listen to Episode 2 ⁠here.⁠ Today’s clickables: Quick hits (1:26), Today’s story (3:14), Right’s take (6:04), Left’s take (9:36), Isaac’s take (13:12), Listener question (17:34), Under the Radar (21:19), Numbers (22:15), Have a nice day (23:20)You can subscribe to Tangle by clicking here or drop something in our tip jar by clicking here. Tangle is looking for a part-time intern to work as an assistant to our YouTube and podcast producer. This is a part-time, paid position that would be ideal for a college student or recent college graduate looking to get real-world deadline experience in the industry. Applicants should have: Proficiency in Adobe Premiere — After Effects a plus. Minimum of one year of video editing (Adobe Premiere) Minimum of one year of audio editing and mixing (Any DAW) Good organizational and communication skills Understanding of composition and aesthetic choices Self-sufficiency in solving technical problems Proficiency in color grading and vertical video formatting (preferred, not required)To apply, email your resume and a few paragraphs about why you are applying to jon@readtangle.com and isaac@readtangle.com with the subject line "Editor opening"The job listing is posted here. Preference will be given to candidates in the greater Philadelphia area. What do you think of Speaker Mike Johnson’s tactics on foreign aid? Let us know!Our podcast is written by Isaac Saul and edited and engineered by Jon Lall. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75. Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Will Kaback, Bailey Saul, Sean Brady, and produced in conjunction with Tangle’s social media manager Magdalena Bokowa, who also created our logo.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tanglenews/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:01:30 the episode, and I hope you're having a great weekend. Talk to you soon. From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about House Speaker Mike Johnson and his proposal on some of the foreign aid stuff that's happening. All right, with that out of the way, we're going to jump in our quick hits. First up, the Supreme Court seemed divided on the question of whether prosecutors improperly
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Starting point is 00:03:32 In Washington, the Speaker of the House is moving to help Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan by splitting a foreign aid bill into pieces. Mike Johnson wants to bypass some fellow Republicans who object to sending more money to Ukraine. On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Mike Johnson spent the day juggling his foreign aid priorities for Ukraine and Israel with potential threats to his job from members of his own party. What is your response to Republicans who say this move should cost you your job and that if you don't resign, they will try to oust you? I am not resigning. And it is in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs.
Starting point is 00:04:12 In a closed door meeting of the Republican legislators on Monday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, the Republican from Louisiana, announced that he would be splitting the $95 billion foreign aid package passed by the Senate into four different bills dealing with Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan separately. A fourth bill would address other Republican priorities. The move comes in response to pressure facing the Speaker to align divisions within his own party, which uniformly urges support for Israel, but whose right flank opposes any additional funding for Ukraine. The House Freedom Caucus has made the Senate bill, which included $60 billion in aid for Ukraine, a non-starter.
Starting point is 00:04:51 House Freedom Caucus member Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican from Georgia, has already introduced a motion to vacate Johnson as Speaker for passing a budget with the cooperation of more Democrats than Republicans, and Representative Thomas Massey, the Republican from Kentucky, said he would co-sponsor the motion in response to the Speaker's plan, suggesting that Johnson pre-announce his resignation. I'm not resigning, Johnson said, and it is, in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs. Since the bills have not yet been introduced into Congress, details remain unclear, but Johnson indicated that he's hoping for the bills to be put to a vote before the end of the week, implying that he aimed to send House members the text of
Starting point is 00:05:34 the bills on Tuesday to allow for a 72-hour review period. Johnson also said that the fourth bill would incorporate policies from the REPO Act, a bill that would enable the U.S. to seize Russian assets, a lend-lease option for Ukraine funding, additional sanctions against Iran, and the forced divestiture of TikTok by Chinese company ByteDance. Despite the dissatisfaction with Johnson from some members of the Republican Party, others opposed bringing a motion to vacate against the Speaker. I like Marjorie. I like Massey. But that's not what a motion to vacate against the Speaker. I like Marjorie. I like Massey. But that's not what a motion to vacate was designed for. It was designed for scandal, said Representative Dan Muser, the Republican from Pennsylvania. Republicans have a 218 and 213 advantage in the House, but four vacancies have left their majority razor thin. That means Johnson would only be able to
Starting point is 00:06:21 lose two Republican votes and still retain the gavel. However, some Democrats have indicated that they would vote to retain him if he oversees a successful vote to fund Ukraine. My position hasn't changed, Representative Jared Moskowitz, the Democrat from Florida, tweeted. Massey wants the world to burn. I won't stand by and watch. I have a bucket of water. Today, we'll get into what the left and the right think about Speaker Johnson's plan and the motion to vacate. then I'll give my take. We'll be right back after this quick commercial break. All right, first up, we're going to start with what the right is saying.
Starting point is 00:07:06 The right is mixed on Johnson's plans, with some advocating for him to get aid to Israel and Ukraine by any means necessary. Others say passing Ukraine aid could be in the end of his speakership. Still others frame this moment as Johnson's greatest test as a speaker. The New York Post editorial board said, go for it, Speaker Johnson. Israel and Ukraine need America aid now. Kudos to the speaker for standing up to the fringe elements in the GOP who are doing their best to dethrone him and stop the aid flows. After Iran's massive weekend attack, it's impossible to deny that Israel needs U.S. help urgently, the board said. Passing an aid bill will not only be a
Starting point is 00:07:45 direct investment in regional security against Iran's ambitions, it will salve at least some of the wounds inflicted on the U.S.-Israel relationship by the Biden administration. The time has come for the GOP to set aside its internal divisions over the issue and simply get the job done. Thanks to a razor-thin House majority, there's no other way. That goes for Ukraine as well, the board added. Backing Ukraine is backing the post-war liberal order, the order under which America largely enjoyed peace and rose to unfathomable economic and military preeminence. These are unfashionable causes among some loud Republicans, but bowing to short-term political pressure on long-term strategic necessities would only deepen the global disaster wrought by the foreign policy emanating from the current White House.
Starting point is 00:08:28 In PJ Media, Rick Moran suggested Speaker Johnson is preparing to walk the plank on Ukraine aid. At stake is whether Republicans want to be a governing party or a party of chaos. They can't be both, but some members apparently can't make up their minds, Moran wrote. If he refuses to bring Ukraine aid to the floor, Johnson and the Republicans would be perceived as responsible for a Ukraine defeat. If he brings the $60 billion Ukraine aid package to the floor, the 55% of Republicans who oppose funding for the war would see it as a betrayal. Rewarding Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine is not a good look for the GOP for the upcoming election.
Starting point is 00:09:09 But supplying Ukraine with resources to resist Russia while not giving the border patrol the means and manpower necessary to slow the influx of illegal immigrants at the border would anger many Republicans, Moran said. Some Democrats oppose aid to Israel because of the high number of civilian casualties claimed by Hamas. There may be enough pro-Ukraine Republicans and pro-Israel Democrats to pass the bill. Will it mean the end of his speakership? In National Review, Audrey Falberg wrote about Mike Johnson's next challenge. The idea, it seems, is for leadership to merge whatever passes into a single national security package that will then lead to the Senate for another vote, Falberg said. Johnson, who has long pledged to pass Ukraine funding and now faces immense pressure to pass Israel aid after Iran's
Starting point is 00:09:50 weekend attack, has insisted that the Senate's package has no chance of passing his fractious and slim GOP majority. To appease on-the-fence House GOP members, the Speaker said he will allow an open amendment process on the bill text. The stakes are high for the Speaker, though it's far from clear that there's an appetite to depose him, and that extends beyond Massey and Green, Falberg wrote. Electorally speaking, booting another Speaker just six months into his tenure isn't exactly a winning message for House Republicans. Not that bad headlines are a top concern for a member like Green. Moral of the story?
Starting point is 00:10:24 Johnson's seen better days. All right, that is it for the rightist saying, which brings us to what the left is saying. The left is critical of far-right Republicans who threaten Johnson to prevent aid to Ukraine. The left is critical of far-right Republicans who threaten Johnson to prevent aid to Ukraine. Some applaud Johnson for moving ahead with a plan to assist all three countries. Others say Johnson's position as Speaker is untenable. In the Washington Post, Josh Rogin said MAGA is using Israel to undermine Ukraine, harming them both. Johnson is trying to strike a compromise. Splitting the bills into separate votes allows anti-Ukraine Republicans to vote against that funding and progressive Democrats to vote against the Israel funding.
Starting point is 00:11:09 But both measures could still pass. That compromise, however, didn't satisfy far-right members of Johnson's caucus, Rogin wrote. Johnson's current effort shows that he is still trying to placate his far-right base, but is also genuinely trying to get Israel and Ukraine funding done. Democrats are right to support this effort, and the Senate should pass Johnson's aid package quickly. If his plan fails, the MAGA drive to fully separate Israel aid and kill Ukraine aid will resurface and pick up more steam. Even if it succeeds, a larger lesson must be learned about
Starting point is 00:11:39 not pitting U.S. allies against each other. By pointing to Israel as a reason to abandon Ukraine, Republicans such as Green and Gates are further politicizing the Israel issue, exacerbating the suffering of Ukrainians, and preventing U.S. leaders in both parties from finding the political compromises needed to ensure the security of Israel, Ukraine, and the United States alike. The Times-Pigayun editorial board wrote about Mike Johnson, Ukraine, and Congress again. We believe removing Johnson is a bad idea, and not just because he's our first home state speaker, the board said. In his six months at the helm of the most chaotic branch of Congress,
Starting point is 00:12:16 Johnson, who is deeply conservative, has shown a laudable willingness to deal forthrightly and even negotiate across the aisle when needed. And he's needed to, often, given his paper-thin majority and his colleagues' penchant for internecine feuds. In spite of the risks, we urge Johnson and his colleagues to support the $95 billion bipartisan spending package, the board said. It is disappointing that support for Ukraine's war against Russia has become a flashpoint for some Republicans. Vladimir Putin's imperialist aggression is not just a regional threat, it's a global one. Sending aid to the beleaguered Black Sea nation protects not just American interests, but those of our allies all over Europe. It also sends a strong message to other nations which may have expansionist inclinations. Based on Charles Yu's award-winning book, Interior Chinatown follows the story of Willis Wu,
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Starting point is 00:13:59 In MSNBC, Hayes Brown argued that Mike Johnson is already running a coalition government in the House. I appreciate that Johnson has at least finally begun to embrace the need for Ukraine funding, despite the opposition of some of his more hardline members. But the Speaker needs to acknowledge the uncomfortable reality of his tenure. While on paper Johnson leads a Republican majority, in practice he oversees a coalition government in all but name, Brown said. As we've seen for the last 15 months, there are enough members in the GOP's far-right faction who routinely stand in the way of passing what would normally be considered party-line votes.
Starting point is 00:14:34 Johnson has repeatedly relied heavily on Democrats to provide the votes necessary to perform routine government functions. It's an untenable situation under Congress's current structures and processes, one that the Ukraine and Israel funding question only exacerbates for Johnson, Brown wrote. Something is going to have to give here. Johnson can accept the reality and lean into the fact that only the Democrats can help him get critical bills over the line, or he can remain loyal in the eyes of the far right in the name of preventing a revolt. Alright, that is it for what the left and the right are saying, which brings us to my take. Before we get into the specifics of this plan, I think it's worth remembering something that seems to have been memory-holed very quickly. There were agreements on the table not so long ago to tie foreign aid for these countries
Starting point is 00:15:28 to a border bill. The thought was that if they tied border security requests to foreign aid funding, which is the kind of thing that always seems to end up getting passed, they could push through their border security wishes. Democrats initially rejected this idea, saying Republicans were only trying to tank aid to Ukraine. But then they started to play ball. Negotiations that devolved into shouting matches eventually yielded an actual bill, the Senate's border bill, which included Republican and Democratic wishes on the border, along with foreign aid funding for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. I had mixed feelings about all of this. I argued both that the border bill would improve the situation we were in right now,
Starting point is 00:16:06 but also that it was expensive and imperfect, naturally. I was opposed in theory to tying two things as disparate as Ukraine aid and southern border policy together in the same bill, but also understood the politics that had created the situation. But I also wondered if Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus were making a big tactical mistake by opposing the bill. I've said to many friends and colleagues privately that I thought aid to Ukraine was always going to end up getting passed, though I suspected it would be delayed. I'm broadly supportive of continuing to support Ukraine, an argument I made last a few weeks ago. I believe this because Democrats have the majority in the Senate and the White House, because many House Republicans support funding Ukraine, and because Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Republican from Kentucky, supports funding Ukraine.
Starting point is 00:16:52 In other words, the Don't Fund Ukraine group is outnumbered and outleveraged. In that context, the House Freedom Caucus fight to block Ukraine aid looks more like delaying the inevitable, resulting in a missed opportunity to get some of their wishes on border security and Israel funding passed. And I think this latest development is a good signal that interpretation might become reality. If it does, if aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan ultimately ends up getting rubber-stamped, my suspicion is some Republicans in the House and Senate are going to regret not getting more in return on a policy move they don't support. As for Johnson, I think he's playing his cards as well as he could. Republicans' ever-thinning majority was always going to be an impossible thing to navigate,
Starting point is 00:17:32 and I said from the beginning he was in over his head. But in recent days, he got the public endorsement from Donald Trump, offered a million different ways for Republicans to move forward on this issue, and is making it clear to people like Green and Massey that he is not backing down and not going to resign. These are all the right moves. Green and Massey look buffoonish, and fewer and fewer people are taking them seriously every day now, which is the trend Johnson wants. Finally, as for this proposal to break the Senate's funding bills into two separate entities, let me say something too few people are saying. This is how it should be done. I understand the circumstances that brought us to this point are less than ideal, and the bills are only being voted on this way because of the entrenched
Starting point is 00:18:13 divisions in Congress, but maybe there's an opportunity for a reset. Why aren't individual issues for something so broad as foreign aid regularly treated by individual bills? Why isn't this option A? If you ask me if I want to send a few billion dollars to Ukraine, my answer has very little to do with whether I want to send a few billion dollars to Israel. I think that's true for most people. Grouping these kinds of things together is one way Congress helps make bills pass, but it's also how we keep spending incredible amounts of money in gigantic legislative packages. You just stuff enough things in there everyone wants that eventually the no votes disappear. One more time for the people in the back. Members of Congress should be voting on aid for Ukraine
Starting point is 00:18:54 separately in a standalone fashion. That shouldn't be the emergency protocol like it is now, but the standard. Ultimately, I think Johnson is attempting to lead a genuinely chaotic caucus with a handful of legislators who have no interest in actually legislating. I do not envy his position, but I think he's doing as well as anyone could. And in the end, I expect to see some large package of funding get shipped to all three countries. The only question to me is when. We'll be right back after this quick break all right that is it for my take which brings us to your questions answered this one's from alex in mill valley california alex said can you help me understand the u.s's role in supporting financially and otherwise israel how much financial aid has gone to israel and how does Valley, California. Alex said, can you help me understand the U.S.'s role in supporting financially and otherwise Israel? How much financial aid has gone to Israel and how does it get approved?
Starting point is 00:19:50 I'm aware that the U.S. has vetoed ceasefire resolutions from the U.N. How impactful have these vetoes been and how exactly would the U.N. have enforced the ceasefire? Okay, so these are two separate questions, so we'll take them separately. First, United States aid to Israel dwarfs what it provides to other countries. The U.S. has provided close to $300 billion adjusted for inflation in economic and military aid to Israel since its founding in 1948, by far the most of any recipient. In 2016, President Obama announced a memorandum of understanding with Israel to provide $38 billion in military assistance between fiscal year 2019 and 2028, $3.8 billion per year, funding that is separate from the $14.3 billion that President Biden requested to send Israel in the aftermath of the October 7th attack,
Starting point is 00:20:38 which remains in flux in Congress, though the Pentagon has found ways around them. Most of this military aid takes the form of weapons grants, which is money the U.S. gives to Israel to buy U.S. military equipment and services. U.S. military aid to Ukraine works in a similar way. That brings us to how this money gets approved. The vast majority of military aid to Israel is provided under the Foreign Military Financing Program, which enables eligible partner nations to purchase U.S. defense articles, services, and training through the foreign military financing of direct commercial contracts. The FMF was established in the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 under a provision that authorizes the president to finance procurement of defense articles and services for foreign
Starting point is 00:21:21 countries and international organizations. The Secretary of State determines which countries will have FMF programs, and the Secretary of Defense is responsible for the execution of those programs, and funds are offered as both loans and grants, non-repayable. Many people call this military aid unconditional, but it's technically not. The Leahy Law prohibits the U.S. government from using funds for assistance to units of foreign security forces where there is credible information implicating that unit in the Commission of Gross Violations of Human Rights. And critics of Israel have argued that the law should prevent further military aid and weapons from going to Israel due to alleged human rights abuses by its military. In 2020, the State Department established a special forum to identify if Israeli units have committed
Starting point is 00:22:04 violations of human rights, which would provide the basis for denying further aid. To date, it hasn't found evidence of any violations, which some foreign policy experts have said suggests that it never will. Now, for your question on the UN ceasefire resolution, on March 26, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution passing it without U.S. support, though through abstention. So in that sense, the U.S. vetoes are no longer impactful. Whether or not the resolution is enforceable is up for debate. The U.S. says it isn't. China says it is. In the short term, the resolution is unlikely to change anything about the day-to-day reality of the war. The U.N. can impose sanctions on Israel and authorize the use of military force through
Starting point is 00:22:45 its peacekeeping personnel, but doing so would require the adoption of a resolution with at least nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the five permanent members of the council, which there is little momentum for. As a matter of optics, however, the ceasefire resolution is a blow to Israel, which for months has faced mounting international security over its actions in Gaza. to Israel, which for months has faced mounting international security over its actions in Gaza. That the U.S. chose to abstain from the vote rather than veto it is undoubtedly a sign that its once unequivocal support of Israel on the world stage is showing cracks. All right, that is it for your questions answered. Next up is our under the radar section. The loss of power that preceded the cargo ship Dolly crashing into the Key Bridge in Baltimore last month was far from
Starting point is 00:23:29 a rare occurrence. Hundreds of similar ships have experienced these loss of propulsion events in recent years. In Baltimore alone, ships lost propulsion recently nearly a dozen times in the three years before Dolly's crash, including a 2021 incident when a cargo ship lost power just after passing under the key bridge. Investigators have identified a range of causes for these failures, including poor maintenance, faulty equipment, and human error, with many of these instances occurring near a port, bridge, or other infrastructure. Now, authorities are warning that more U.S. ports could be vulnerable if ships don't adopt better measures to respond to a loss of control. The Washington Post has a story and there's a link to it in today's episode description.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Next up is our numbers section. The approximate number of humanitarian financial military support the U.S. has provided to Ukraine since Russia's invasion is $72 billion. The percentage of Americans who say the U.S. should send military weapons and aid to Ukraine is 53%, according to a CBS News YouGov poll. The percentage of Republicans who say the U.S. should send military weapons and aid to Ukraine is 39%. The value of two military aid transfers from the U.S. to Israel after the October 7th attack was $250 million. That's the only two transactions that have met the congressional review threshold and been made public to date. The percentage of Americans who say they support the U.S. stopping all aid to Israel is now 33%,
Starting point is 00:24:55 according to a Politico Morning Consult poll released this week. The percentage of Republicans who say they support the U.S. stopping all aid to Israel is 27%. The percentage of Americans who say the security relationship between the U.S. and Taiwan strengthens U.S. national security is 65%. That's according to a 2023 Chicago Council survey. All right, and last but not least, our have a nice day story. Mitchell Robinson is a professional basketball player for the New York Knicks, but he has this special appreciation for one of the men who helped get him there, his high school basketball coach, Butch Stockton, lost his wife, and Robinson knew how tough the loss was. At her funeral, Robinson invited Stockton to come and stay with him. He said,
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