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.
The circus part of bread and circuses.
I feel Congress is more the bread part. If you don’t have money, they’ll let you live. But just barely. Don’t want the slaves getting too comfortable.
The circus is 'ol “grab 'em by the neck pussy” Drumpf.
Can a reporter please ask why his neck looks like a vagina. That would be fucking great to watch
Republicans made Congress a distraction. Democrats let it happen.
Once people figure out politics is just business then the perspective changes. It’s just that people like distractions more than paying attention. See Fox News Propaganda for a great example of both.