Key takeaways:
- The GOP-led House passed a bill providing $14 billion in aid to Israel amid its war with Hamas.
- The bill passed with a 226-196 vote, mostly along party lines, and has no chance of survival in the Senate.
- On the same day, James Fallows and Marianna Sotomayor discussed the upcoming marathon for American democracy on “Sunday Morning” at the Dubliner, an Irish pub on Capitol Hill.
On Sunday, November 5th, the one-year anniversary of the 2024 Election Day, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise defended the proposed cuts to IRS funding in a bill passed by the GOP-led House. The bill would provide $14 billion in aid to Israel amid its war with Hamas.
The bill passed the House with a 226-196 vote, mostly along party lines, with a dozen Democrats voting with Republicans for the measure and two Republicans opposing it. However, Democrats have made clear that the bill has no chance of survival in the Senate, and President Joe Biden has vowed to veto it.
On the same day, longtime journalist James Fallows and Washington Post Congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor discussed the upcoming marathon for American democracy on “Sunday Morning”. Fallows noted that “everything is at stake” and that the election will turn on big fundamentals of economics and people’s sense of the world.
The conversation took place at the Dubliner, an Irish pub on Capitol Hill. The pub is a different sort of Washington monument, where small talk often strays into politics. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill is said to keep a watchful eye over the bar.
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