{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/moulton-statement-politicized-israel-aid-vote", "Moulton Statement on Politicized Israel Aid Vote", "2023-11-03", "2023", "2023-11", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Seth Moulton", "M001196", "moulton.house.gov", "moulton", "https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "\u201cJust days into his tenure, Speaker Mike Johnson is making the same mistake his recently ejected predecessor made: catering to the far right and politicizing policies that should be easy to support, like providing aid to Israel.\n\nI support Israel, but I cannot support the Speaker\u2019s hypocritical move to force an Israel aid package with an \u2018offset\u2019 of $14.3 billion in cuts to the IRS that increases the deficit by more than twice that on the backs of hardworking Americans who pay their taxes. Make no mistake: Cutting the IRS may sound good, but it only helps tax cheats. In fact, it helps wealthy tax cheats the most. This bill literally gives more aid to wealthy Americans than to our closest ally in the Middle East.\n\nThis proposal also sets a dangerous precedent. If every emergency supplemental request must be \u201coffset\u201d by spending cuts, then Congress will quickly find itself unable to respond to global emergencies. Emergency assistance exists to be above politics, but the new Speaker seems to want to put his hard-right politics into everything. Add to the list his choice to simultaneously exclude any humanitarian funding for Gazans, something I have argued is important both for innocent Palestinians and the Israeli mission to eradicate Hamas.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/moulton-statement-politicized-israel-aid-vote"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7284190505743027, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}