President Joe Biden’s insistence that multiple different topics be packaged together is an excuse to help him push through his more unpopular ideas, and it is a problem that has disillusioned people with politics as normal in Washington, D.C.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is planning for a vote on aid to Israel this week. Biden’s team then threatened to veto that, saying, “The Administration strongly opposes this ploy which does nothing to secure the border, does nothing to help the people of Ukraine defend themselves against Putin’s aggression, fails to support the security of American synagogues, mosques, and vulnerable places of worship, and denies humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom are women and children.”