{"id":50999,"date":"2024-04-15T17:18:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50999"},"modified":"2024-04-15T17:18:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:18:20","slug":"us-speaker-johnson-says-will-offer-israel-aid-bill-in-coming-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50999","title":{"rendered":"US Speaker Johnson says will offer Israel aid bill in coming days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he aims to advance war-time aid to Israel this week following Iran&#8217;s weekend attack, but did not clarify whether Ukraine funding would be part of the package.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American assistance for both nations has languished amid political bickering in Congress, with Johnson &#8212; an ally of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump &#8212; blocking an earlier $95 billion in aid sought by President Joe Biden for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan which had passed the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The House Republicans and the Republican Party understand the necessity of standing with Israel. We&#8217;re going to try again this week, and the details of that package are being put together right now,&#8221; Johnson told Fox show &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking at the options on all these supplemental issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday he aims to advance war-time aid to Israel this week following Iran&#8217;s weekend attack, but did not clarify whether Ukraine funding would be part of the package. American assistance for both nations has languished amid political bickering in Congress, with Johnson &#8212; an ally of presumptive Republican presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1164],"class_list":["post-50999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-us-speaker-johnson-says-will-offer-israel-aid-bill-in-coming-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}