Hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Produced by Ian Stewart
Edited by Allison Benedikt and Jessica Metzger
Engineered by Ian Stewart
Original music by Dan Powell
The battle over aid to Israel continues to heat up in Washington. While President Biden has proposed a $105 billion package that would distribute aid to Israel, Ukraine and other corners of the world, Mike Johnson, the newly-elected Republican House Speaker, has put forth a package that only addresses aid to Israel.
Karoun Demirjian, a congressional correspondent in The Times’s Washington bureau, gives Lulu Garcia-Navarro an update on the state of the aid package, and describes the scene from a divided D.C.
The Israel-Hamas war is evolving by the minute. To help bring you the most up-to-date developments, we’ve begun “The Headlines: War Briefing,” where you’ll hear the latest from our correspondents on the ground every afternoon. Hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
