Meeks freezes Trump’s $2.8B bomb mega-shipment to Israel
Just when Donald Trump was gearing up to send tens of thousands of massive bunker-busters overseas on Uncle Sam's dime, Congress tapped the brakes.
The White House was quietly prepping an absolute monster of a munition package: roughly 40,000 two-ton bombs, spanning MK-84s, BLU-17s, and heavy penetrator warheads. The wildest part is that American taxpayers were slated to foot the vast majority of the bill through the Foreign Military Financing program.
Former President Joe Biden had previously paused these exact 2,000-pound munitions over the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, only for Trump to yank off the restraints within days of stepping back into the Oval Office. Now, Representative Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, used his clearance power to throw a wrench into the whole deal.
His reasoning is shockingly straightforward: dropping tens of thousands of city-block-levelers onto one of the most crowded strips of land on the planet might just conflict with international humanitarian law and civilian protection rules.
Financing an arsenal capable of leveling an entire province on the taxpayer's dime is certainly an interesting interpretation of regional defense.
Source: The Washington Post
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