Blinken’s Senate Testimony On Aid To Israel Interrupted Multiple Times By Protesters Shouting “Ceasefire Now”

October 31, 2023 News, Politics

PBS NewsHour reports:

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make the case Tuesday that the United States should immediately send aid to Israel and Ukraine, testifying at a Senate hearing as the administration’s massive $105 billion emergency aid request for conflicts in those countries and others has already hit roadblocks in the divided Congress.

President Joe Biden’s Cabinet secretaries will be advocating for the foreign aid to a mostly friendly audience in the Senate, where majority Democrats and many Republicans support tying aid for the two countries together.

But it faces much deeper problems in the Republican-led House, where new Speaker Mike Johnson has proposed cutting out the Ukraine aid and focusing on Israel alone, and cutting money for the Internal Revenue Service to pay for it.

Read the full article. As you’ll see below, the protest was carefully orchestrated as one by one they stood and shouted for a ceasefire while others held up “bloody” hands coated in red paint. As each protester was removed, another stood and began shouting. In the final clip below, the full group of around two dozen is escorted out.



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