TitleOctober 19, 2023
In Washington, DC, independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders blocked legislation that would effectively prevent US humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza. On Wednesday, Sanders opposed Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott’s effort to unanimously pass the so-called “Stop Taxpayer Funding of Hamas Act.”
Senator Bernie Sanders: “Right now there are hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, boys and girls in Gaza who have lost their homes. They were forced to leave their homes. They have no food. They don’t have water. They don’t have fuel. And I remind my colleagues that half of them are men and women.”
Meanwhile, Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin ordered the deployment of 2,000 more US troops to the Middle East to support Israel. This is in addition to the deployment of a rapid response force to the eastern Mediterranean, consisting of 2,000 marines, who will be joined by two carrier strike groups. This Thursday night, President Biden will deliver a prime-time speech in which he is expected to ask Congress for $100 billion in emergency funding to send more weapons to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, and to further militarize the borders between the United States. and Mexico.
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