Biden admin approves emergency $106 million arms sale to Israel
December 11, 2023 | Kevin Haggerty
While negotiations with Congress have stalled, the Biden administration plowed forward with an emergency justification for the conditional sale of over $100 million in arms to Israel.
A deal over the roughly $106 billion package promoted by President Joe Biden, which primarily aimed to fund Ukraine with some money for Israel, remained stalled as Congressional Republicans endeavored to include U.S. border security in the supplemental. Saturday, the administration revealed it had managed a workaround that allowed for nearly 14,000 tank cartridges to be sold to Israel under the pretense of emergency.
In a release from the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), it was explained that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had justified the emergency to Congress on Friday, “thereby waiving the Congressional review requirements under Section 36(b) of the Arms Export Control Act, as amended.”
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