Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Progressive lawmakers on Friday dissented as the Republican-controlled U.S. House advanced legislation to provide more military funding to Israel as well as Ukraine and Taiwan, with Rep. Cori Bush condemning a committee's refusal to consider an amendment aimed at securing a permanent cease-fire in Gaza .
The new military aid was passed on top of more than 100 weapons transfers the Biden administration has made to Israel since October 7. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, two of the transfers were reviewed by Congress and totaled about $250 million. 'Our country spends billions of tax dollars to maintain this apartheid state and support the continued ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,' said Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, in a statement on Thursday.
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