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{"id":25805,"date":"2026-07-14T14:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hakeem-jeffries-says-he-will-oppose-bid-to-cut-off-israel-aid\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:17:55","slug":"hakeem-jeffries-says-he-will-oppose-bid-to-cut-off-israel-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hakeem-jeffries-says-he-will-oppose-bid-to-cut-off-israel-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakeem Jeffries says he will oppose bid to cut off Israel aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/196306\" data-person-id=\"196306\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> told fellow Democrats Tuesday he will oppose an amendment aimed at cutting off U.S. aid to Israel, wading directly into a contentious issue that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/hakeem-jeffries-israel-aid-democrats-00986438\" target=\"_blank\">dividing the party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries announced his position in a \u201cDear Colleague\u201d letter circulated Tuesday and later spoke about his opposition during a morning caucus meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment to the fiscal 2027 spending bill for the State Department and overseas programs was introduced by Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/198835\" data-person-id=\"198835\">Thomas Massie<\/a> (R-Ky.) and could come up for a vote in the coming days. It has sharply divided the party for weeks, with progressives calling for an end to America\u2019s financial support for Israel as leadership-aligned members warned that the measure could also cut off aid to Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries said the amendment is \u201coverly broad in that it prohibits or would limit the use of funds for longstanding initiatives related to humanitarian aid, refugee resettlement, peace-building and U.S. Embassy operations.\u201d He added that the measure would also restrict U.S. capabilities to \u201cconfront Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anniekarni\/status\/2077009365886734741\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Until today, Jeffries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/hakeem-jeffries-israel-aid-democrats-00986438\" target=\"_blank\">had not advised his caucus<\/a> about how he would vote on Massie\u2019s amendment, though he hinted he had qualms. He hosted two lengthy meetings last month where House Democrats debated the measure.<\/p>\n<p>He said in the letter Tuesday that there are \u201cgood faith reasons that will result in Members voting in a variety of different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told fellow Democrats Tuesday he will oppose an amendment aimed at cutting off U.S. aid to Israel, wading directly into a contentious issue that is dividing the party. Jeffries announced his position in a \u201cDear Colleague\u201d letter circulated Tuesday and later spoke about his opposition during a morning caucus meeting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}