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Key House Democrat refuses to clear Trump’s $2.8bn arms sale to Israel
✦Key takeaways
- Pro-Israel Gregory Meeks raises concerns over threat to civilian lives from package of 40,000 one-ton bombs ‘An antidote to Trumpism’: Our politics team answered your questions on Democrats’ midterms hopes The top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee has thrown up a roadblock to one of the largest US arms transfers of Trump’s second term, refusing to clear a $2.8bn sale of 2,000lb bombs to Israel.
- Gregory Meeks announced the hold on Tuesday on a package of 40,000 of the bombs, among the most destructive
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