LEADing EFFORT TO BLOCK ISRAEL FROM USING U.S. AID TO DESTROY PALESTINIAN HOMES
Putting conditions on U.S. aid to Israel has become a controversial topic but it was the norm in Washington just a few decades ago.
SINCE 2015, Rep.
Betty McCollum, D-Minn., has been the leading congressional critic of
Israel’s military detention of Palestinian children, introducing multiple pieces of legislation that would bar Israel from using U.S. military aid to
arrest Palestinian youth.
By targeting Israel’s detention of Palestinian children just one aspect of Israel’s military occupation, but one that involved a highly vulnerable population McCollum was attempting to make her bills appeal to the widest swath of Democrats possible.
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WASHINGTON Two senior Democratic senators will introduce legislation on Friday that would reassert Congress’ oversight of international weapons deals, after President Joe Biden’s administration decided to go ahead with a $23 billion sale to the United Arab Emirates that had worried lawmakers, congressional aides said.
The bill, seen by Reuters, will be introduced by Senators Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Dianne Feinstein, a senior member of the intelligence committee.
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Two senior Democratic senators will introduce legislation on Friday that would reassert Congress’ oversight of international weapons deals, after President Joe Biden’s administration decided to go ahead with a $23 billion sale to the United Arab Emirates that had worried lawmakers, congressional aides said.
The bill, seen by
Reuters, will be introduced by Senators Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Dianne Feinstein, a senior member of the intelligence committee.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday conceded that the Biden administration has not secured any formal agreements with Central American countries to curb migration into the U.S.
President Biden has proposed a $4 billion plan for Central American countries including Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to invest in tackling what he calls the root causes of the migration crisis like gang violence and economic instability.
Psaki touted the agreements on Monday, but Ricardo Zúñiga, special envoy for the Northern Triangle, testified on Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee that no such agreements had been concluded.
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