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Nearly 99 percent of the House voted against an amendment to nix just $500 million in military funding for Israel from the towering $830 billion Pentagon budget bill last week, with just six lawmakers voting for the amendment even as Israel prepares to erect a concentration camp in Gaza to confine Palestinians.

The amendment targeted funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program, which provides Israel with funding for its missile programs separately from the $3.3 billion in military and supposed “security” funding allocated to Israel yearly by the U.S.

The House overwhelmingly opposed the amendment, and it failed 422 to 6. Representatives Al Green (D-Texas), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), Summer Lee (D-Pennsylvania), Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) voted for the legislation.

Greene introduced the amendment,

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