F-15Es are still used somewhat often for Air to Ground stuff

Somewhat often? It's their primary role. It's called the Strike Eagle and its nickname is the Mudhen for a reason.

Yes the Ford F-150 can be used to commute, but you dont see UPS purchasing a new fleet of F-150s to deliver packages. People dont usually accept that level of inefficiency when the price tag is measured in billions.

My point was that the US has a variety of child-shredding and apartment-exploding warplanes that they would be happy to sell to Israel, so why did Israel choose the plane-destroying version instead?

Other commenters gave a good answer: these are likely in the F-15E family, which are equipped to shred children and explode apartments.

I thought that's why they call it a hammer drill

The US didn’t have planes specifically designed for air to ground

They do have three, not counting the big bombers: Harrier, AC-130 and A-10, though they are more specialised and niche.

Except a majority in the US disapproves of Israels recent actions and they are risking their victory - which is likely gonna be a close one - for next to nothing. Even if they really don't give a fuck, they could have just postponed the decision.

Don't get your hopes up too much, but potentially yes. Congress is the one that has the power of the purse. They appropriate money to be used for certain purposes and the Executive is responsible for spending that money on the things Congress appropriated it for by a certain date from the bill that did the funding. But usually the form this takes is Congress giving a number and the President deciding exactly what to do to meet that number. Any time before that deadline Congress can decide to reappropriate funds for something else. They usually just opt to change the numbers next time around. Biden tried to get them to do this with some sections of border wall that were funded under Trump. So theoretically yes Congress could cancel this later if they wanted to.

But even if they don't, if what you quoted is accurate this is probably one of the best case scenarios for us non-Genocide Enjoyers. This means that the Biden admin is eating up $18 billion dollars of the money Congress appropriated for Israel aid to build jets that they won't get in time to further their genocidal aims. Since that money has to get spent arming Israel regardless since that's what Congress appropriated it for it's much better if it goes to expensive shit they won't get for years than munitions they could use within weeks to bomb more civilians.

Why would Dems stop it?

Sadly, the 5 dems I would have voted for are all hanging back and letting the rest of the Dems shut them out.

Time to make another run at ending the 2 party system.

It will hurt, but when you let it stay 51/49, everything rapidly goes right.

Also, I would imagine the military contractors have already pocketed the 18 billion that was moved from public trust to Israel to the contractor.

If the deal were cancelled, that's another 18 billion out of the public trust refunded to Israel to buy something else from the military contractors.

If Dems actually stood against genocide, yes.