After Hamasā€™ surprise attack on Oct. 7, Republicans and Democrats in Congress both said they needed to act quickly to help Israel.

At the time, the House was floundering without a speaker, and members cited the necessity of sending immediate aid to a close U.S. ally as a motivating reason for solving the speaker drama.

But five weeks after Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected speaker, and nearly eight weeks since the attack, Congress doesnā€™t appear any closer to passing an aid packageā€”for Israel or for Ukraine, the latter of which has been ā€œweeksā€ away from running out of weapons for months now.

As Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) told The Daily Beast this week, Ukraine needed an aid package in October.