The White House is speaking out against a Republican-led bill that would force President Biden to stop withholding military deliveries to Israel.
Republicans in the House of Representatives introduced the Supporting Israel Security Assistance Act this weekend, which would “require the prompt delivery of approved defense items and services to Israel, including deliveries by third parties”.
Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary spoke out against the bill during her Monday news conference, saying it limited the president’s ability to achieve his foreign policy goals.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
“We strongly oppose attempts to restrict the president’s ability to deploy U.S. security assistance consistent with U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives,” Jean-Pierre said at the conference. Monday press.
Biden has so far held back an arms delivery covered by the Israeli aid package passed in Congress last month.
Jean-Pirre told reporters at the news conference that the Biden administration intends to follow through on the $17 billion in aid. approved by Congress.
BIDEN UNDER INVESTIGATION AFTER THREAT OF OFFENSIVE AID FROM ISRAEL: “PLAYING POLITICAL GAMES”
Israeli soldiers gather near the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel before entering the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
“Our goal is also to plan to spend every last cent, in accordance with legal obligations, including in the recent… supplementary bill on national security which has just been adopted,” he said. she declared.
THE The White House unclear intentions regarding the implementation of the Israeli aid program threatened to break up the Democratic Party.
Twenty-six Democrats signed a letter to the president last week expressing concern about the “message the administration is sending to Hamas and other Iranian-backed terrorist proxies.”
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President Joe Biden walks on the tarmac as he arrives on Air Force One at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
After President Biden gave his ultimatum to deny offensive weapons to the Jewish state if Israel were to launch an invasion of Rafah, rocket fire rained down on Israel on Friday from Rafah, and more rockets were fired on Saturday.
Hamas launched rockets from Rafah into the south Israeli city from Beersheba on Friday for the first time since December, as Iranian proxy Hezbollah sent a barrage of rockets into the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, causing a massive fire.
Benjamin Weinthal of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
