Republican appropriators in the House of Representatives are advancing a bill to compel President Joe Biden’s administration to deliver all the weapons Congress has appropriated for Israel after the administration paused some weapons deliveries and threatened to block more.
Several congressional Republicans expressed outrage last week after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the administration had delayed delivery of a shipment of “high-payload munitions” and after President Biden threatened to withhold more lethal aid if Israeli forces proceeded with a large-scale military operation in the southern Gazan city of Rafah.
