In a letter to the White House, Tom Cotton revealed why Joe biden began delaying weapons to Israel and called on them to explain this action.
In short, nearly twenty Democrats sent Biden a letter uring him to end expedited weapon sales to Israel.
Here’s more from Free Beacon:
The Biden administration stopped fast tracking weapons to Israel in early January after a pressure campaign from Democratic lawmakers who oppose American support for Israel’s war to eradicate Hamas, a GOP senator said on Thursday.
Federal law allows the president to forgo formal congressional notifications on arms sales “when emergencies exist,” and the Biden administration invoked this power last year as it worked to quickly provide Israel with the arms it needed to combat Hamas. However, the administration “stopped acknowledging the emergency in Israel after receiving a letter from nearly twenty congressional Democrats in January, urging [it] to end expedited weapons sales to Israel,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) wrote in a Thursday letter pressing the White House to explain the delay in arms shipments to Israel.
“Your administration is engaged in bureaucratic sleight-of-hand to withhold this crucial aid to Israel during a shooting war,” Cotton wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. “You’re playing politics with the nation’s honor and our ally’s security. Worse still, your administration lacks the honesty to communicate its true policy to the American people, instead preferring to hide behind weasel words and bureaucratic process.”
The letter comes just days after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly accused President Joe Biden of withholding U.S. weapons and ammunition the Jewish state is relying on to eradicate Hamas in the Gaza Strip and combat a growing threat from Hezbollah on its northern border. The White House denied the accusations, saying it does “not know what [Netanyahu is] talking about,” but said it had delayed shipments of 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs.
Cotton, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says the administration is being dishonest about the delay and that it has not sent an assortment of promised weapons, prolonging Israel’s war and endangering its soldiers at a time when both Hamas and Hezbollah continue to rearm, regroup, and coordinate attacks on Israeli civilians.
“The Arms Export Control Act requires the administration to notify Congress before sending weapons to a foreign country,” Cotton said. “Your administration has manipulated this requirement by withholding this formal notification to Congress of approved weapons sales, including F-15s, tactical vehicles, 120-mm mortars, 120-mm tank rounds, joint direct attack munitions, and small diameter bombs. Your administration can then claim that the weapons are ‘in process’ while never delivering them.”
Joe Biden is an enormous piece of excrement for doing this while Israel is fighting this war against Hamas. He’s a selfish a-hole and I hope Trump destroys him in the debate next week.