Trump May Defy Congress to Sell More Arms to Saudis

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/29/trump-may-defy-congress-to-sell-more-arms-to-saudis/

Trump May Defy Congress to Sell More Arms to Saudis
May 29, 2020 at 6:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

“The Trump administration is moving to sell another cache of munitions to Saudi Arabia, according to lawmakers and congressional aides, a step that would again defy Congress and ignore the objections of lawmakers in both parties about Riyadh’s human rights record,” the New York Times reports.

“The State Department informally notified lawmakers in January that it was planning to move forward with the sale of precision-guided missiles worth $478 million to Saudi Arabia, and to approve licenses to allow Raytheon to expand its manufacturing footprint inside the kingdom. The top Democrats on the Senate and House foreign affairs committees have both withheld their support for the plan, effectively blocking it, but they fear State Department officials will push the sales through anyway.”

[kentuck]

1. Why doesn't the Congress just go home?

What good are they?

[LastDemocratInSC]

4. Their previous role was checking the executive branch

Their new role is expressing grave concern and furrowing their brows.

[babylonsister]

5. What do you suggest they do? nt

[donkeypoofed]

2. Drumpf HAS to do this !

He has to make interest payments on a 300 mil debt. If you owed that much money, you'd have to make greasy arms deals, too.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Impeach the MF again!