Biden admin again bypasses Congress to sell military equipment to Israel
The Biden administration for the second time this month has bypassed Congress to approve the transfer of nearly $150 million in military equipment to Israel
Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed Congress that he has made an emergency determination to immediately approve the transfer of “155mm ancillary items including fuzes, charges, and primers that make 155mm shells functional,” a State Department spokesperson said Friday.
The spokesperson said the additional items were added to previous sales, which “increased the total value of the sale to $147.5 million.”
Earlier this month, the administration rushed forward a sale of thousands of munitions to Israel, bypassing the standard 20-day period that congressional committees are typically afforded to review such a sale. The State Department sent an emergency declaration to the oversight committees that more than 13,000 tank shells would be delivered to Israel without any “further information, details or assurances.”
Can’t we just bypass Congress to immediately transfer weapons to Ukraine instead? That seems to be 1) the more important conflict, and 2) an actual “morally just” conflict where our support can make a real difference, and 3) an amazing return on investment and a pittance compared to what the Ukrainians themselves are having to sacrifice.
The difference might be that Israel has the financial ability to buy such weapons while Ukraine relies on funding from the US and other countries. The White House can probably green lit the sale of arms to Israel but not the transfer to Ukraine as that would involve the government paying on which Congress has oversight. I could be completely wrong though.
The guys over at /Politics told me that It's impossible to bypass Congress to provide weapons they were extremely certain of it.
It's not that Biden only wants to help the Zionists because of the huge bribes he receives from AIPAC.
Genocide Joe surely has no way to provide weapons to Ukraine other than bowing his head to the Republicans, accepting their demands to buid the wall and waiting until next year.
He probably just forgot that he can't do this bypassing congress thing twice this month already. Silly senile old man.
Biden needs to tell Netanyahu to fuck off. Biden is killing his chances at reelection with this. And with that, democracy in America cuz we all know trumps fascist plans. I am fucking furious about this.
Why are you acting like he's not doing this of his own desire? Biden is a zionist like 99% of other American politicians. Netanyahu isn't making him do this. He's just doing it.
lol how did you get that from my words? That’s just u.
You need to stop idolizing politicians, Biden is no saint
In what way did I idolize?
You’d have to be an idiot to vote for trump regardless of whatever Biden is doing
Nobody is going to vote for Trump because of this. But it WILL cause enough folks to get dejected and not vote at all, and that's all it'll take for Trump to win. Democrats need a candidate people can be excited about voting for, or they WILL lose.
The "but the other guy is worse!" approach won't work this time.
I’ve in no way shape or form voted or would vote Republican in my life, lol
But we deserve another option. I think Biden will lose
ranked choice when
When the GOP and Dems both think they'd do better if we had other options than them.
I.e. trick them
What did you expect from a 127 years old guy?
Hope bombing brown people in Gaza for a few months is worth losing the republic.
Oh no, Netanyahu is now saying this will take at least a year...
What "emergency determination"? Is the IDF losing actually?