Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Trump administration asks congressional leaders to approve new $1b. arms sales to Israel - WSJ

US President Donald Trump's administration has asked congressional leaders to approve new transfers of roughly $1 billion worth of bombs and other military hardware to Israel, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The planned weapons sales include 4,700 thousand-pound bombs, worth more than $700 million, and armored bulldozers built by Caterpillar Inc., worth more than $300 million, the report added.

The engineering equipment manufacturer could face criticism from progressive members of Congress due to "Israel's past use of them to demolish Palestinian homes," the report claimed.Trump had previously lifted a hold on 2,000-pound bombs that was imposed by the previous Biden administration, and the US president also said that he wouldn't withhold any future weapons shipments to Israel. “They paid for them, and they have been waiting for them for a long time,” the Wall Street Journal quoted him last week as he was aboard Air Force One.  (Read  More)