Biden Weighs New Israel Arms Deal of More Than $1 Billion: WSJ

What does it look like this package, this deal for Israeli aid would look like, and how difficult will it be to actually get it through Congress? Yeah, let’s look through the sort of the different arts that we’ve seen from the Wall Street Journal. So we understand this is more than a billion dollars that is being suggested from the White House here. The 1st 700 million will go to tank ammunition, about 500 million tactical vehicles and just under 100 million on mortar rounds. And that is in addition, Danny, critically to that House bill that is now going to potentially be voted on as early as tomorrow that Mike Johnson is putting on the floor of the house that has been stalled, that has all that extra aid, yes, to Israel, but also to Ukraine, to Gaza, to the Indo Pacific that we might get some motion on. And what’s important and what’s significant about this other deal over a billion dollars worth of it is that it’s among one of the largest transfers. A sales, I should say, of American weapons to Israel since the beginning of the war. And it is one of the first new deals, right? A lot of the stuff that has been transferred to Israel are pre-existing. Contracts that have already been set up with Israel to the tune of $25 billion. And this is where it gets sort of. Complicated, because of course there has been a lot of criticism, even from the White House and the United States, of Benjamin Netanyahu and how he’s conducting the war. It seems that they’re willing to push forward. The question is, will Democrats and others within the US government be willing, be as willing to push this through?