The State Department announced on Friday that it was planning to send Israel more than $6.5 billion of weapons aid that included Apache attack helicopters and combat land vehicles, bypassing a congressional review process.

The packages of four weapons systems had been under review for months by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The State Department is supposed to wait for approval from the top two members on each of those committees before announcing the aid. But in this case, the department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio circumvented that norm.

It was the third time that the Trump administration has bypassed this part of the congressional process, called informal review, to send weapons to Israel.

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    Biden that you defend is a proud christian. You are a scummy hypocrite

    In his memoir, Biden writes that his idea of self, family, and community comes “straight from my religion.” He describes himself as both a “theological” and “cultural” Catholic

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      Biden unlike his Catholic faith actually supports women’s rights to an abortion. And doesn’t support forced to carry. But ya Catholicism can get fucked as well

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        You still there nazi? Didn’t you say you will block me twice? He send billions just like Trump to a jewish extrimist religion state comiting genocide , murder palestinians women and rape young girls.