Durign a press conference on Thursday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) delivered remarks on proposed legislation on Israel assistance security.
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00:00 On the issue of today, just as President Biden defies the will of Congress with his use of
00:05 executive privilege, he is brazenly doing so by withholding congressionally mandated aid.
00:11 Just last month, Senator Chuck Schumer declared from the Senate floor, this is his quote,
00:17 "The House must rush to Israel's aid as quickly as humanly possible."
00:22 Well, today, Senator Schumer has done an about-face, he's reversed course.
00:28 Yet again, it is President Biden and Senator Schumer himself who are standing in the way
00:33 of getting Israel the resources it desperately needs to defend itself.
00:37 The House has tried multiple times to deliver this much-needed aid to Israel,
00:42 and each and every time now, Biden and Schumer have opposed it.
00:45 And now, just weeks after Congress passed the National Security Supplemental,
00:50 which included $26 billion for Israel, the Biden administration is defying the will of Congress
00:56 and withholding weapons shipments to Israel.
00:59 We want the President to hear this loud and clear.
01:03 He said just not long ago that we had to have ironclad support for Israel.
01:08 Well, that's what he previously proclaimed, but his actions are doing exactly the opposite.
01:14 This is a catastrophic decision with global implications.
01:18 It is obviously being done as a political calculation, and we cannot let this stand.
01:23 The House will be voting on legislation to compel the delivery of defense weapons to Israel as they
01:29 fight to protect themselves from radical terrorists and defend their very existence as a nation.
01:34 But Joe Biden is threatening to veto that legislation, and Chuck Schumer is suggesting
01:40 now that he refuses to bring it to the Senate floor.
01:42 On October 7th, Hamas, the radical terrorists, which are proxies for Iran, lit a fire in Israel,
01:52 a proverbial fire that is still burning, and Biden and Schumer are telling Israel that they
01:56 are only really allowed to put out part of that fire.
01:59 That is just simply not going to work.
02:02 Israel needs to finish the job, and America needs to help Israel extinguish the flame of
02:08 terror that is wrought by Hamas.
02:10 It wasn't that long ago when President Biden called for the elimination of Hamas,
02:14 but he's not doing that anymore.
02:16 And now it's clear that Biden and Schumer have turned their back on Israel.
02:20 They are carrying water for Iran and its proxies.
02:24 This is not complicated.
02:26 It's actually very simple.
02:27 This is a moment where we need, not just the American people, but the entire world, need
02:33 moral clarity.
02:35 You are either with Israel or you are not.
02:39 And if Schumer refuses to bring this up for a vote, he'll be telling the world that his
02:44 party, the Democrats, are no longer willing to stand with our great ally.
02:48 I don't think that that is a palatable position of the American people.
02:53 With that, I will yield next to our Republican Majority Leader, Steve Scalise.