Senators push to stop Trump administration's proposed arms sale to UAE
A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday introduced measures to block the Trump administration’s proposed weapons sale to the United Arab Emirates, calling it a dangerous move that could weaken Israel and lead to an arms race in the region.
The joint resolutions of disapproval come a week after the State Department notified Congress of the U.S. government’s intention to sell $23 billion worth of munitions to the Gulf nation. Earlier this year, the UAE signed a peace accord with Israel and pledged to normalize relations with the country.
Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is spearheading the effort alongside Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who regularly advocates a noninterventionist foreign policy.
“As I tried to warn the Trump administration, circumventing deliberative processes for considering a massive infusion of weapons to a country in a volatile region with multiple ongoing conflicts is downright irresponsible,” Menendez said in a statement.
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