Bryant Harris
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Senior White House officials tell
@LeoShane
they'll privately raise press freedom issues when Biden hosts Modi today, but did not commit to raising specific cases, including the baseless arrest of our Defense News colleague Vivek Raghuvanshi.
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At the Senate Appropriations markup, Sen. Feinstein begins a speech at the beginning of a vote. Someone interrupts her to tell her "just say aye." She obliges and just says "aye," kicking off the first vote.
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.
@ChrisMurphyCT
condemns uptick in Yemen violence. Calls on the State Department to become "more directly involved in political negotiations," calling it "a critical moment when Yemen could lose the window of opportunity for negotiations and return to fighting."
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The Houthis continue to detain six Baha'i prisoners despite a promise to release them in March.
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1/ Sen. Blumenthal/Rep. Ro Khanna hold presser on their joint bill to ban all US arms sales to Saudi for 1 year. Khanna notes Saudi planes "literally wouldn't fly" w/o US technicians: "What galls many of us in Congress is the ingratitude."
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@KallieECox
@deray
Also this: “”The adjunct shared that they weren’t in the encampment when they were arrested and were instead filming the arrests of other students and staff.”
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@BobMenendezNJ
@ChrisMurphyCT
introduce privileged Senate resolution that would require Trump administration to report on Turkish human eights abuses in Syria.
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Unfortunately I was just let go as part of the sweeping lay-offs decimating the newsroom at Defense News and Military Times. It was honestly the best group of people I've ever worked with, including the few that remain, those who were let go in March and those who have resigned.
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@jessesingal
As a gay guy, clearly my life would have been a lot better off if my school had found out I was gay and outed me to my parents against my will.
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Excited to finally announce that today is my first day joining the amazing
@Joyce_Karam
as a Washington Correspondent at
@TheNationalUAE
! So lucky to be working with
@AlOraibi
@JHainesYoung
and the team to continue providing news/analysis on US Mid East policy/domestic politics!
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After obstructing
@barackobama
's efforts to close Guantanamo when he was president, House Democrats have reversed course and are quietly trying to clear the way for
@JoeBiden
to close the facility should he win the presidential election in November.
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Democrats who voted to pass the
@RoKhanna
resolution defunding offensive military action against Iran and the White House agree on at least one thing: It would have barred Trump from killing Soleimani.
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McConnell on Senate floor makes case that supporting Ukraine is important to deterring China, citing Asian allies who have made same argument. Also says he's "glad" NATO has invited Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand to summit in Lithuania next month.
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Turkish FM Cavusoglu visited DC today while trying to make progress on the F-16 sale. But a key senator is still blocking it; plus Lockheed already has a production backlog for the in-demand fighter jet. More on that (and Greece F-35 sale) w/
@StephenLosey
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Sens.
@SenatorMenendez
and
@SenatorLeahy
follow up with 9 other Dems calling on
@SecPompeo
to brief Congress on the Khashoggi murder and Trump administration's response.
After Trump failed to comply with legal deadline in probe determining whether MBS killed Khashoggi,
@SenatorMenendez
sends letter to
@SecPompeo
asking for all documents related to the Khashoggi murder.
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@jessesingal
I fail to see how. I’ll give your piece a read when it’s done — but seems like you (and there parents/right-wing groups) are arguing that students shouldn’t have any privacy rights.
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Betty McCollum, top Dem on defense appropriations subcommittee, calls transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine "unnecessary and a terrible mistake." Notes US "pays tens of millions of dollars annually to remove cluster munitions in Laos," which continue to kill civilians today.
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John Bolton and his new deputy Charles Kupperman are listed as directors for a nonprofit (the Institute for a Secure America) they started the same day Trump tapped Bolton for NSC. Bolton didn't list that on his financial disclosure. H/T
@aaronjschaffer
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After Trump failed to comply with legal deadline in probe determining whether MBS killed Khashoggi,
@SenatorMenendez
sends letter to
@SecPompeo
asking for all documents related to the Khashoggi murder.
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Today the House voted 405-7 to pass
@Malinowski
's bill to sanction Saudi officials/royals complicit in Jamal Khashoggi's murder. Whether it gets to Trump's desk is now up to the Senate. Read more about the bill here:
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Shockingly, it turns out that the actual cost of Trump's new Jerusalem embassy is almost 100 times more than he repeteadly said it would be. Major h/t to
@aaronjschaffer
on this one!
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After meetings with the State Department in the wake of Erdogan agreeing to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership, Menendez says it’s still not enough to lift his hold on F-16 sale.
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NJ Dems revolting against Menendez, much more forceful stance than Schumer.
These are serious allegations against Senator Menendez and if proven true, there is no room for this kind of conduct in public service.
Today is a sad day for New Jersey and I believe it’s in the best interest of our state that Senator Menendez resign.
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2020 contenders
@KamalaHarris
@ewarren
and
@BernieSanders
all tell me they would rejoin the Iran nuclear deal as president. And several liberal advocacy groups are asking all candidates to do so.
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The House passed legislation today that would force
@realDonaldTrump
to slap sanctions on Turkey over its purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defense system.
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.
@RonWyden
plans to trigger a vote in the Senate to force
@realDonaldTrump
to declassify the list of Saudi officials complicit in murdering
#JamalKhashoggi
, which could include MbS. (That report was legally supposed to be unclassified per the NDAA).
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@RepRoKhanna
tells me he will introduce his Yemen war powers resolution to end support for Saudi coalition within next few weeks. He expects it to pass both the House and Senate.
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Some employment news: Today is my last day at Al-Monitor. On Monday I will start a new gig as a producer at Sky News Arabia's DC bureau. My Al-Monitor email and phone will no longer be accessible after today. (You can still reach me by email at the address in my bio.)
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Mike Gallagher says at press conference that he was supposed to meet with Gen. Milley today in SCIF to discuss Indo-Pacific but he can't right now because he technically does not have a clearance since there's no speaker to swear anyone in.
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House Armed Services Chair
@RepAdamSmith
lambasts Trump decision to deploy ~1,500 additional US troops to Saudi to counter Iran while withdrawing from Turkish-Syrian border: "The President claims he wants to put an end to ‘forever wars’ but his rhetoric and policy don’t match."
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My first piece w/
@Joyce_Karam
for
@TheNationalUAE
is up! Dozens of key lawmakers — mostly from the Armenia Caucus — are pressuring the Trump admin to toughen up on Azerbaijan and Turkey over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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The Senate just passed an amendment to prohibit DOD taxpayer dollars from being used to support Iran. This may shock you but the US provides Iran with an annual $0 in military aid.
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.
@SenatorLeahy
opening statement before
@SecPompeo
's testimony on 2020 budget proposals: "Maybe you can explain why a dictator like Egypt's President al-Sisi is feted at the White House?" Also mentions Trump's past praise for Erdogan as "strong" and his favorable treatment of MbS
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Pretty sure
@SenBobCorker
voted against the deal and wrote the legislation allowing you to "decertify" the deal this week.
..my endorsement). He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said "NO THANKS." He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!
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The schism b/w establishment Republicans and Trump-style populists raises questions about whether Biden can rely on lawmakers to continue funding the influx of aid to Ukraine if Democrats lose control of Congress. (w/
@reporterjoe
)
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Trump’s allies in the GOP-held Senate failed to stop
@ChrisMurphyCT
from passing an amendment to defense bill to stop Trump from supporting the Saudi coalition in Yemen until the Defense Dept. certifies that they have ceased giving US weapons to extremists
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Van Hollen says "I'm at the end of my rope" and threatens to "use my power here in ways I have never done before." Leaf apologizes and promises to get the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the report on Abu Akleh's murder asap.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen tells Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Barbara Leaf that "I've run out of patience" over not being able to see report on Israel's killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
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Schumer says Menendez has temporarily stepped down as Foreign Relations chair but looks like Dems aren't expelling him from Senate anytime soon. Schumer says "He has a right to due process and a fair trial" and lauds him as "dedicated public servant" fighting hard for New Jersey.
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Pressed by Dems, Trump's Iran coordinator Brian Hook refused to affirm that the 2001 AUMF does not authorize war w/ Iran. Dems are also pointing to John Bolton's role in false statements leading up to the Iraq war to discredit Trump's Iran policy.
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Biden’s chips export controls could hamper China’s ability to develop cutting edge weapons, while doing the same thing to the broader Chinese economy. Here’s a look at Biden’s chip ban and congressional efforts to decouple the world’s 2 largest economies.
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House had one vote today: A symbolic resolution of support for Sweden/Finland NATO accession that passed 394-18. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin the formal US ratification process for their accession in a business meeting tomorrow.
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Warren grilled Pentagon lawyers on ethics rules the same day she released a report that found nearly 700 former DOD and congressional officials have gone on to lobby for defense contractors.
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This is big. The Mattis/Pompeo briefing on Saudi Arabia did not dissuade senators from voting 63-37 to move ahead with a bill ending US support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
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McConnell continues to make case for Ukraine aid on Senate floor, again noting that "the vast majority" of the military aid goes to US defense manufacturers and helps expand production lines for munitions to sell to US allies in the Pacific deter China.
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Cardin, the new Foreign Relations chair, began a Q&A with reporters by handing out flyers detailing the plight of Saudi political prisoner Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan. Says human rights will be a crucial to arms deals/defense pacts with Saudi, Turkey, Egypt, etc
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Congress can block any civil nuclear deal with the Saudis, so today's House Oversight Committee report on the White House's attempts to transfer US nuclear tech to Riyadh is likely to complicate any agreement.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes to advance Sweden/Finland NATO ratification to Senate floor by voice vote (Paul voted "present" - no "no" votes) Full Senate is expected to vote on ratification the week of July 25. It's expected to easily get the 67+ votes needed to pass
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.
@CoryBooker
just became the 58th senator to cosponsor Cardin's controversial Israel Anti-Boycott Act, bringing it extremely close to passing despite the ACLU's constitutional concerns. Of the potential 2020 Dem candidates, Booker is the only one that supports this bill so far.
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Today Congress advanced legislation that could hinder Azerbaijani military aid by requiring the State Department to assess it against Armenia’s much smaller security aid packages.
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Foreign Affairs and Indo-Pacific subcommittee leaders (McCaul/Meeks/Kim/Bera) bipartisan statement praises Biden's Japan/South Korea summit tomorrow: "Elevating our trilateral relationship is key to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific and a rules-based international order."
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SASC top Repub Wicker blasts reports Biden admin won't give Ukraine long-range ATACMS: “Does the Biden administration want Ukraine to win, or not?”
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Still zero word on what US commitments to Saudis under this defense pact would entail.
Deal-making in full force in Riyadh. Saudi saying it’s ‘very, very close’ to security pact with US that would guarantee path to Palestinian statehood. Hamas taking its time but extremely critical week ahead for all involved
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Graham just put out a statement noting these planes are made in South Carolina. He issued a seemingly unprompted statement last month saying US-Saudi relations benefit our "economic and national security interests. Reversal from his prior bills targeting Saudi on Khashoggi/Yemen
NEW: White House announces that Boeing completed two deals today with Saudi Arabia to manufacture up to 121 of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
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.
@wikileaks
The executive order has nothing to do with nonexistent voting machine hacks. It covers the DNC/Podesta hacks. You know this.
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By a 94-1 vote, the Senate confirmed Christopher Lowman to oversee Pentagon logistics - tasking him with coordinating the influx of military equipment to Ukraine. Josh Hawley, who had held up his nomination repeatedly, was the lone no vote.
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SCOOP: Republicans write letter to Sec. Austin pushing back on Air Force plan to replace two permanent F-15 squadrons in Okinawa with rotational F-22 deployments. They argue it sends the wrong message to China. (w/
@StephenLosey
@reporterjoe
)
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Before
@SenatorMenendez
questions David Satterfield, Trump's nominee as ambassador to Turkey (who is the acting assistant secretary of state for the near east) at his confirmation hearing, he notes that Satterfield cancelled a meeting with him.
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Must read from
@amberinzaman
. She had the scoop on this before top State Department officials went public with the US/Turkey Syria "safe zone" proposal today.
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Appropriations unanimously by voice vote adopts Barbara Lee amendment to combat Pentagon waste, fraud, abuse by requiring Secretary of Defense to submit report on contract pricing data. Republicans on board after Defense Subcommittee Chair Ken Calvert says he supports it.
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Today I interviewed
@ChrisVanHollen
. He plans to use the power of the purse to counter Trump's end-run around Congress on Saudi weapons sales, the Yemen war and Iran.
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McCaul (top Repub on House Foreign Affairs) says Russian retreat from Kherson shows it's "far past time for the Biden administration to provide Kyiv with all the weapons it needs, including longer-range ATACMS."
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If you’re able, I would encourage you to donate directly to local relief efforts in Morocco. My friend
@MEzzarghani
is from Al Haouz and has organized a go fund me for organizations working directly to help the hardest hit province. Open for another day.
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2/ Blumenthal says the bill is narrowly scoped to arms sales for 1 year b/c "this relationship with Saudi Arabia is so fundamental and important, relating to Iran, relating to Israel." Still, he notes that the US-Saudi relationship has been "one-sided.'
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New STRATCOM commander Gen. Anthony Cotton is taking a less forceful stance on SLCM-N than his predecessor Admiral Charles Richard, who repeatedly told Congress he favored the program despite the Biden administration's ongoing attempts to cancel it.
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The United States has relied almost entirely on China — and to a lesser extent Russia — in recent years to procure a critical mineral that is vital to producing ammunition. Congress wants to address this in the NDAA.
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Turkey critics on Capitol Hill could add a new irritant to the strained bilateral relationship with legislation retooling longstanding US policy toward the disputed island of Cyprus.
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Scoop: The House China Committee is prepping bipartisan proposals to arm Taiwan and enhance its cybersecurity that they hope to include in the House NDAA markup in June, Chairman Mike Gallagher tells me in an exclusive interview.
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1/ After concluding a brief debate on the NDAA, SASC Chair Jack Reed told reporters that "we should look carefully at everything we’re sending" Saudi because because "their inability to cooperate with the west and their willingness to cooperate with Russia is very disturbing."
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Concerning.
If you’re wondering why you’re rate limited it is not a bug it is Elon making it so you can only read 600 posts a day. The business master has performed his ultimate move
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I took a look at the
@JoeBiden
campaign's foreign policy advisers and what implications that holds for the Middle East should he win the election.
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Eight Senate Republicans voted w/ Dems to constrain Trump from attacking Iran:
@SenAlexander
@BillCassidy
@SenatorCollins
@MikeLeeforUtah
@JerryMoran
@lisamurkowski
@RandPaul
@ToddYoungIN
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2/ He adds that US should "put on as much political pressure on OPEC members to break away and increase production.” His remarks came after Menendez vowed to hold up Saudi arms sales as a result of last week's oil production cuts.
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen tells Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Barbara Leaf that "I've run out of patience" over not being able to see report on Israel's killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
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House passes resolution 414-2 expressing support for Turkey/Syria earthquake victims. The bill also:
*calls for more oversight mechanisms to make sure Assad doesn't divert US aid
*endorses the US Caesar Syria sanctions
*welcomes Turkey's "continuing support to Syrian refugees"
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As far as I’m aware the Trump administration hasn’t released the legal justification for assassinating Soleimani yet. But here’s my piece from earlier this week to give you a sense of where the admin’s lawyers have their heads at.
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SCOOP: In addition to the
@ElissaSlotkin
Iran war powers resolution the House will vote on this week, Dem leaders are also considering
@BernieSanders
/
@RoKhanna
bill to bar funds for military action against Iran and a repeal of the 2002 AUMF to invade Iraq.
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Armed Services Chair Mike Rogers says at China hearing Congress was just informed that China now has more ICBM launchers than the US.
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@oneunderscore__
If he has so much money why didn’t he hire a better lawyer who at the very least wouldn’t send all his texts to the plantiffs’ attorneys? O_o
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee tried to advance Trump's nominee David Schenker to lead State Dept's Near East division but couldn't b/c of a hold from
@timkaine
. Kaine wants the White House to give him the legal memo for its strike on Assad regime.
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So if you’re going to write pretty much the exact same story several days later, crediting Al-Monitor for reporting it first would be nice. RT did this too but I would expect a bit more from ABC.
US Embassy in Jerusalem to cost more than $21 million - nearly 100 times President Trump’s estimate - ABC News - via
@ABC
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3/ Blumenthal says it's "possible" but also "questionable" if he could get this bill on NDAA when Senate votes in November. But he says there are other possible legislative vehicles to pass it like the omnibus spending bill.
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.
@TulsiGabbard
quietly introduced a resolution last week that could force the House to vote on a US troop withdrawal from Syria, potentially dividing Democrats and anti-war activists.
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1/2 Sens. Sullivan and Duckworth lead bipartisan letter to Austin/Milley urging the Biden admin to expedite delivery of HIMARS to Ukraine and "consider fourth-generation fighter aircraft and necessary flight training for inclusion in forthcoming military aid packages."
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Morocco started targeting Iran — a bugbear for both Netanyahu and Trump — around the same time it started back channel talks to normalize ties with Israel in exchange for the US recognizing its annexation of the Western Sahara.
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Exclusive: US pours cold water on Iran's $5 billion emergency loan request at IMF to deal with coronavirus.
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SCOOP:
@JoeBiden
told campaign donors today that any Israeli annexation of the West Bank would “choke off any hope for peace.
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House Democrats voted this week to slash military aid to Egypt -- and the aid cuts are likely to survive any final spending package after the shutdown ends.
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Latest Hill battle lines over Saudi:
@RoKhanna
,
@ChrisMurphyCT
want to defund US aid to coalition in NDAA/approps.
@LindseyGrahamSC
asks
@SenatorRisch
to hold vote on
@BobMenendezNJ
Yemen/Khashoggi bill. And
@HouseForeign
is working on separate Yemen bill.
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.
@BernieSanders
is calling on
@realDonaldTrump
to to ease his Iran sanctions regime as Tehran struggles to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
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SCOOP: As the House debates a resolution condemning Trump's racist remarks targeting
@IlhanMN
and the rest of "the squad," Omar is about to drop her own resolution defending the BDS movement against Israel.
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.
@BobMenendezNJ
@RepEliotEngel
want to keep US sanctions on Iran during COVID-19 but w/ steps to better facilitate humanitarian exemptions (tracking w/
@JoeBiden
's position from yesterday).
@BernieSanders
+the left want to remove financial sanctions
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Got to start as the new Congress reporter for Defense News this week right when all the fun budget hearings start kicking into high gear! Here's my first story:
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This is obviously gut wrenching both to see what's happening to the publication and for us personally, but needless to say I'm looking for other opportunities asap. Rent's not gonna pay itself after all!
Unfortunately I was just let go as part of the sweeping lay-offs decimating the newsroom at Defense News and Military Times. It was honestly the best group of people I've ever worked with, including the few that remain, those who were let go in March and those who have resigned.
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In DoD readout of call, Secretary Austin urges Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant "to address extremist settler violence against Palestinian civilians."
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NEW: Republicans and Democrats are struggling to end the shutdown, but they can at least agree on cutting Saudi Arabia off from a key military training program:
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The Senate is scheduled to vote on NDAA and amendments in October.
gop
@SenCapito
says she’s willing to negotiate new version with Manchin and put on annual defense bill
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