Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) has pledged to hold a vote to provide $17.6 billion in new funding for Israel as it continues to wage war on Hamas. The vote would be for a stand-alone bill absent any other provisions or spending cut offsets.

Until now, legislative focus had centered on an at least nominally bipartisan Senate accord that would have provided new funding for Israel, Ukraine, and various border initiatives. Johnson has rejected that newly released Senate bill as providing inadequate border security provisions.