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Trump Officials Bypass Congress to Push Billions in Weapons Aid to Israel (www.nytimes.com)

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The State Department announced on Friday that it was planning to send Israel more than $6.5 billion of weapons aid that included Apache attack helicopters and combat land vehicles, bypassing a congressional review process.

The packages of four weapons systems had been under review for months by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The State Department is supposed to wait for approval from the top two members on each of those committees before announcing the aid. But in this case, the department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio circumvented that norm.

It was the third time that the Trump administration has bypassed this part of the congressional process, called informal review, to send weapons to Israel.

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[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

The zone is flooded - crimes against the citizens of the united states are being committed with wreckless abandon - treason has become cheap