Progressive Democrats Succeed in Removing $1 Billion Iron Dome Funding From Bill

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76. Thank you for your response

I understand what you're getting at, but I am still not 100% buying the idea that this billion dollars cannot come from Israel. I fully understand why Israel has this and why they should continue to fund it. I'm not arguing against the existence of the Iron Dome. It's just that if my math is correct, they could increase their military budget by 0.3% of their GDP (in 2019 it was 5.2% of their GDP to military spending) to get that billion dollars. Their total expenditure is lower now than it ever has been in the past. In 2008 they were spending nearly 6.5% of their GDP on military. Whether that's because their economy has grown or because they are spending less (or a mix), that tells me that they're fully capable of spending a fraction of percent more without having their economy collapse.