House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday announced legislation to provide Israel with $14.3 billion in aid amid Jerusalem’s ongoing conflict with the terrorist group Hamas.

The package would deliver the sum requested by President Joe Biden in his own security package. Unlike the White House plan, however, the House plan would provide aid solely to Israel and offer no support to Ukraine. Biden had requested $61 billion in support for Kyiv amid the ongoing war with Russia. …

Offsetting the cost, however, would be matching cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, according to Politico. Specifically, it would reclaim some of the funding assigned to the agency to hire 87,000 new agents from the Inflation Reduction Act.

[That won’t make it through the Senate, but it will provide Johnson with some leverage on his goal to split the aid for Israel and Ukraine into two separate bills. The Senate GOP caucus wants them split too, but no one proposed offsetting cuts for either package. — Ed]