{"id":1487687,"date":"2024-02-07T19:29:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=cdaa16ec4d396b4a7d3d3c60b6b2a7b5"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:29:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T19:29:31","slug":"tlaib-slams-house-israel-aid-bill-as-blank-check-to-netanyahus-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/07\/tlaib-slams-house-israel-aid-bill-as-blank-check-to-netanyahus-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Tlaib Slams House Israel Aid Bill as \u201cBlank Check to Netanyahu\u2019s Genocide\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A standalone bill to send $17.6 billion in unconditional assistance to Israel failed in the House on Tuesday night. Lawmakers cited a wide range of rationales for their opposition, with progressives specifically objecting to the idea of sending Israel a &ldquo;blank check&rdquo; for its genocidal assault on Gaza. Due to stringent rules for certain types of bills set as a condition by the Republicans&rsquo; most far...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/tlaib-slams-house-israel-aid-bill-as-blank-check-to-netanyahus-genocide\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/tlaib-slams-house-israel-aid-bill-as-blank-check-to-netanyahus-genocide\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bill to send $18 billion in additional assistance to Israel failed to pass for procedural reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59681,287,288,82,4,473,1142,276],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487688,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487687\/revisions\/1487688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}