The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee took the rare step Wednesday of publicly announcing a hold on the Trump administration’s $2.8 billion plan to sell 40,000 one-ton bombs to Israel.
The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee took the rare step Wednesday of publicly announcing a hold on the Trump administration’s $2.8 billion plan to sell 40,000 one-ton bombs to Israel.
It’s a temporary hold where Congress gets to ask for more info. You’re right that it’s informal and Trump doesn’t need their approval anyways.
Perhaps it’s enough to make him back off before the midterms.
Thanks, I think him saying “will not clear…” threw me off. But to someone who knows about the process that could easily just mean “I’m not going to let it go without asking for more info”, not “I’m putting a stop to this” as I had read it.