Some Democrats Say Biden Is Using ‘Highly Unusual’ Methods to Arm Israel

Some Democratic lawmakers are accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of taking “highly unusual” steps in order to continue sending weapons to Israel’s military without running the arms transfers by Congress. The Arms Export Control Act (AECA) generally requires a presidential administration to notify Congress of foreign arms transfers in most cases and to allow Congress time to review the proposed arms transfers. The State Department has circumvented this congressional notification process to provide weapons to Israel in recent weeks, citing an exception in the AECA that allows the secretary of state to skip the notification process if he or she deems there is an emergency requiring more immediate arms transfers....