Battle brews over Israel aid as White House accuses Republicans of ‘politicizing national security’ – US politics live

New speaker brings bill to House that sends $14.3b to Israel by cutting the IRS budgetGood morning, US politics blog readers. Joe Biden and many lawmakers in Congress, Democrat and Republican alike, want to send Israel billions of dollars in aid to help its increasingly controversial fight against Hamas, but the request appears destined for Washington DC’s partisan meat grinder. Late yesterday, Mike Johnson, the newly installed Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, made good on expectations he would bring a far-right approach to the job by introducing a bill to send $14.3b to Israel that would be paid for by cutting from the Internal Revenue Service’s budget. You might remember that the tax authority received a big funding infusion last year from the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden’s signature legislative accomplishment, and Republicans have been trying to rescind that money ever since.The proposal is sure to satisfy Johnson’s conservative supporters but will almost certai