GREAT NEWS! White House And Congress Working To Cut Off U.S. Aid To Palestine

This is AWESOME news!

According to this, there are plans in the works with both the Trump administration and both houses of Congress to cut US funding of the Palestinians. The reason? Because Palestine has this nasty habit of supporting terrorist groups against Israel and America –

The White House is signaling its support for a new congressional effort to cut all U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority due to its continued support of terrorism against Israelis and Americans, according to senior lawmakers and senior White House officials.

Leading lawmakers in the House and Senate gathered Tuesday on Capitol Hill to introduce legislation that would cut all U.S. funding to the Palestinian government, which has been criticized for providing financial incentives to terrorists who kill American and Israeli civilians.

The White House signaled its support for the legislation in a vast departure from the Obama administration, which worked against similar efforts when in power.

From spox for both the White House and the Senate –

A senior White House official familiar with the effort told the Free Beacon that the Trump administration welcomes this effort and will sign it into law if it passes Congress.

“The Palestinian Authority’s use of its resources to provide material support for terrorism—indiscriminately targeted at American and Israeli civilians—is a grotesque example of how well-intentioned U.S. generosity can be turned against us,” a senior White House official told the Free Beacon.

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The new legislative effort, titled the Taylor Force Act after an American who was killed in a Palestinian terror attack, cuts off all U.S. aid to the Palestinians as a direct response to its longstanding policy of paying salaries to terrorists and supporting those imprisoned for terrorist attacks.

“We can’t continue to financially support a government who looks to the so-called martyrs schedule,” said Sen. Roy Blunt (R., Mo.), who is spearheading the effort alongside Sens. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and Tom Cotton (R., Ark.).

Even Lindsey Graham is making sense on this! And he’s agreeing with Sen. Ted Cruz (you know this is a big deal when those two are in accord on a subject) –

“Most Americans have no idea this is a problem,” Graham said. “Not only are Israelis victims of this practice, Americans are victims of this practice. We’re going to change this. We’re going to get the Palestinian Authority’s attention by withholding their money.”

Graham also noted that “anti-Semitism is on the rise” in America. The bill represents an effort to push back against this.

“I want people to understand who America is when it comes to the one and only Jewish state,” Graham said.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), who has long backed similar efforts, told the Free Beacon it is long past due for Congress to take the lead on this effort now that Obama administration officials can no longer lead efforts to block it.

Now, I’m sure that this is going to lead to even more nonsensical protests from the left because, in their minds, Palestine is a bunch of poor, picked-on little bunny rabbits because Israel keeps trying – you know – NOT TO GET WIPED OFF THE MAP and fights back against Palestinian aggression.

Cognitive dissonance, much?

Honestly, I have no clue why we were giving aid to the Palestinians in the first place. It really should have ended a long time ago (should it even have begun? I’m still looking into that). But I will happily take these renewed efforts to get our taxpayer dollars out of the hands of terrorists who hate and want to kill us.