The GOP-controlled House’s top two Republicans – Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise – are not expected to attend the chamber’s annual bipartisan trip to Israel, which is being led by Rep. Steny Hoyer, a long-time House Democratic leader.
The trip this week is ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s July 24 joint address to Congress, which has become a political lightening rod within the Democratic Party with members split between their support for Israel or the Palestinians in the Gaza war.
