Trump admin to sell new weapons to Saudis despite lawmakers' objections

[Brian4Liberty]

Trump administration plans to sell new weapons to Saudis despite lawmakers' objections

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration will push through a new weapons sale to Saudi Arabia and bypass congressional objections by declaring the transaction an "emergency," according to lawmakers who were notified of the plan Friday.
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Those transactions generally require a congressional sign-off.

But the Trump administration is relying on a narrow provision in the 1976 Arms Control Act that allows the president to sidestep Congress in an emergency. Under that measure, the president must certify that an emergency exists "which requires the proposed sale in the national security interest," thus waiving Congress' power to review and stop the sale.
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More: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ns/3768851002/

[Anti Globalist]

Certainly those weapons won't be used to kill innocent people in Yemen won't they?

[TheCount]

Something something Bolton

[angelatc]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...51e_story.html

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo notified lawmakers Friday that President Trump is invoking his emergency authority to sidestep Congress and complete 22 arms deals that would benefit Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries, despite lawmakers’ objections to the transactions.

Republicans and Democrats urged the Trump administration this week not to take the rare step of exploiting a legal window to push through deals — worth about $8 billion, according to congressional aides — that lawmakers have blocked from being finalized.

Insanity.

[oyarde]

Congress should never be sidestepped for the saudis .

[angelatc]

Congress should never be sidestepped for the saudis .

Only Israel.

[Anti Globalist]

Gee, I wonder what the Saudis are going to do with all those weapons. They couldn't possibly be used to kill innocent people.

[oyarde]

Only Israel.

Ya , not them as well .

[goldenequity]

Gee, I wonder what the Saudis are going to do with all those weapons. They couldn't possibly be used to kill innocent people.

Nothing's changed. Nothing different.



https://ian56.blogspot.com/2015/12/w...anti-tank.html

[PAF]

Here’s a good deal:

How about impeach trump for spending my money in that “emergency” spending bill, that pathetic Omnibus, and now sidestepping Congress engaging in “foreign arms deals”.

[Brian4Liberty]

Let’s hold our breath waiting for a successful court challenge of this emergency declaration...

[RonZeplin]

Here’s a good deal:

How about impeach trump for spending my money in that “emergency” spending bill, that pathetic Omnibus, and now sidestepping Congress engaging in “foreign arms deals”.

This might be even worse than Fast 'n Furious?


Nah, just more of the same Swamp Thug Life

[EBounding]

I don't care. I just don't want to hear people talking about impeaching Trump

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Better us than Russia I guess

[Cap]

Trump is the swamp.

[devil21]

Wannabe dictators gonna dictate.

[r3volution 3.0]

Something something Bolton

Something something 42D chess...

...something something better than Hillary.

[RonZeplin]

Something something 42D chess...

...something something better than Hillary.

[enhanced_deficit]

Normally I don't support neoconism and MIC wars profiteering, but in this case s just selling weapons to our closest ally Islamist dictatorship enough, shoudln't more US troops be sent to the region also to defend our closest allies?

[TheCount]

Trump is the swamp.

Drain the swamp.

[Brian4Liberty]

Let’s hold our breath waiting for a successful court challenge of this emergency declaration...

I must have missed where the Democrats and other “anti-war” leftists successfully blocked this “emergency declaration” in some activist court room.