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* Israeli coalition wins reprieve in military draft feud ahead of budget vote Ultra-Orthodox parties drop conscription law demand before budget vote * Budget includes 40 billion shekels in spending cuts and tax increases * Haredi parties secure funding for day care in exchange for budget support By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM, - Israel s government has won another reprieve in a dispute over exemptions of religious To stanley cups rah students from military service, with ultra-Orthodox parties ditching a demand that a new law on conscription be passed before the budget is approved this week. Leaders of ultra-Orthodox Haredi parties in the coalition had demanded that parliament pass a new call-up law exempting full-time religious seminary students before a cabinet vote o stanley cup n a so-called austerity 2025 budget due on Thursday. Without a new law, they had threatened to abstain from the budget debate, potentially crippling government finances in t stanley cup he middle of a war and bringing down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s government. Both Netanyahu and his hardline Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, whose religious nationalist party represents a different strand of Jewish identity, said the budget had to be passed on time, ruling out a new conscription law. Whoever opposes the budget will pay a price and bear full responsibility, Smotrich told a news conference on Monday, saying there was no contradiction between religious study and service in the army. The budget in Uvpr In shadow of Putin s Ukraine war, two European strongmen face elections
House Republicans are moving next week to fund President Donald Trumps $1.6 billion request to begin construction of his oft-promised wall along the US- Mexico border. A fence along the border between the US and Mexico near Brownsville, Texas. NYT Aides said GOP leaders have decided to stanley vaso attach the money to build 74 miles of fencing and levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and near San Diego to a spending bill for the defense department and a handful of other agencies like the department of veterans affairs. The wall money is strongly opposed by Democrats and some Republicans. But Trump is insistent on it and the GOP plan w vaso stanley ould give Trump a much-needed victory on Capitol Hill after the failure of the Trump-backed effort to repeal and replace the Obama health law. Adding the wall money to the defense spending measure, which includes huge increases for the Pentagon, would appear to ensure its passage through the House, despite opposition among some border state Republicans, and could set up a clash with Senate Democrats. Trump has promised that Mexico would pay for the wall but hasnt come up with a plan to force it to actuall stanley shop y do so. Taxpayers will instead foot the bill. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, announced yesterday that GOP leaders had abandoned a plan to bundle all 12 of the annual spending bills for the budget year beginning October 1 into a single omnibus package. That appeared to be too much for rank-and-file Republicans to digest, s
* Israeli coalition wins reprieve in military draft feud ahead of budget vote Ultra-Orthodox parties drop conscription law demand before budget vote * Budget includes 40 billion shekels in spending cuts and tax increases * Haredi parties secure funding for day care in exchange for budget support By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM, - Israel s government has won another reprieve in a dispute over exemptions of religious To stanley cups rah students from military service, with ultra-Orthodox parties ditching a demand that a new law on conscription be passed before the budget is approved this week. Leaders of ultra-Orthodox Haredi parties in the coalition had demanded that parliament pass a new call-up law exempting full-time religious seminary students before a cabinet vote o stanley cup n a so-called austerity 2025 budget due on Thursday. Without a new law, they had threatened to abstain from the budget debate, potentially crippling government finances in t stanley cup he middle of a war and bringing down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s government. Both Netanyahu and his hardline Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, whose religious nationalist party represents a different strand of Jewish identity, said the budget had to be passed on time, ruling out a new conscription law. Whoever opposes the budget will pay a price and bear full responsibility, Smotrich told a news conference on Monday, saying there was no contradiction between religious study and service in the army. The budget in Uvpr In shadow of Putin s Ukraine war, two European strongmen face elections
House Republicans are moving next week to fund President Donald Trumps $1.6 billion request to begin construction of his oft-promised wall along the US- Mexico border. A fence along the border between the US and Mexico near Brownsville, Texas. NYT Aides said GOP leaders have decided to stanley vaso attach the money to build 74 miles of fencing and levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and near San Diego to a spending bill for the defense department and a handful of other agencies like the department of veterans affairs. The wall money is strongly opposed by Democrats and some Republicans. But Trump is insistent on it and the GOP plan w vaso stanley ould give Trump a much-needed victory on Capitol Hill after the failure of the Trump-backed effort to repeal and replace the Obama health law. Adding the wall money to the defense spending measure, which includes huge increases for the Pentagon, would appear to ensure its passage through the House, despite opposition among some border state Republicans, and could set up a clash with Senate Democrats. Trump has promised that Mexico would pay for the wall but hasnt come up with a plan to force it to actuall stanley shop y do so. Taxpayers will instead foot the bill. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, announced yesterday that GOP leaders had abandoned a plan to bundle all 12 of the annual spending bills for the budget year beginning October 1 into a single omnibus package. That appeared to be too much for rank-and-file Republicans to digest, s
