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Republicans Block Biden's Sending of $150 Million to Palestinians

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz : Apr 12, 2021
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"The PA is spending millions annually to compensate terrorists while the international community pays for the well-being of the Palestinian people. A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report rightly calls for increased oversight of Palestinian assistance to ensure compliance with anti-terrorism policies. The Biden administration should use all available leverage to secure behavior changes from the PA, including ending terror payments." -Risch and McCaul said in a statement

[Israel365News.com] A group of GOP lawmakers got together on Thursday to block a plan by the Biden administration to give a total of $235 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United Nations Relief and Works Association (UNRWA). (Screengrab image)

On March 26, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) presented Congress with a "program narrative" of $75million that would take effect 15 days after the notification was received, meaning the funding would begin on April 10 (Saturday).

Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, stopped the US AID notification from reaching the committees, effectively delaying the initiation of the funding to stop the USAID's notification about the reinstated funding from reaching the committees, which means the aid will not begin as scheduled... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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