Congress puts hold on Trump’s $1 billion arms sale to Israel
Congress puts hold on Trump’s $1 billion arms sale to Israel
Oh now they care
Maybe this time at least people will care if/when the president goes around Congress to fund a genocide in violation of the Lehay Act....
Because I still can't get over no one caring when Biden did it.
I think people cared that Biden did it, but what are we to do? Pissing and moaning about it just strengthened the anti Biden/Harris crowd and created a strawman for the opposition to use. The criticism was and is warranted, but I think saying no one cared is disingenuous. I think it's arguably one of the biggest reasons Trump is president today.
Comparing the arms sales of the two admins is a completely different scale and magnitude. Apples to Orchards.
They want a cut.
I'd be willing to bet they'll reintroduce it in an even worse form. The majority of them don't give a shit about genocide.
That is unfair to claim they don't give a shit about genocide. Most of our representatives care deeply and are doing everything within the powers of the legislative branch...
...to support genocide. They fucking love it!
You give them too much credit, they nothing genocide.
They'll probably add language that requires the money to be purchased from their corporations of choice and then approve it.
Hey! Congress finally woke up from their nap.
They weren't napping. They were completely supporting this genocide for the past year and a half.
They won't do anything to stop this, they're a Republican majority in both chambers. This hold is temporary at best and symbolic at worst.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the hold, saying Democratic lawmakers had exercised a hold.
So, not even the Repitlicans. Democrats at least make an effort to do something. Finally.
"Okay, well, we're going to send the arms anyway."
Now we know what it takes for that to ever happen.
Tankies still say shit like "but the Dems were gonna sell weapons to Israel anyways so both sides bad"
This is fucking stupid, I hate being right.
Biden is no longer there to stop the Senate democrats from doing the right thing.