Trump Administration Selling $2.8B Worth Of Powerful Bombs To Israel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The administration then approved a new series of arms sales to Israel totaling $6.67 billion in January.
47% : Congress has been informally notified about the pending deal, most of which is to be paid for with foreign military financing -- in which U.S. taxpayer dollars are given to Israel to turn around and buy the weapons from the United States.
42% : While the heaviest fighting in Gaza has subsided since the fragile ceasefire took hold in October, Israel has continued to carry out strikes in the territory, including some overnight and into Tuesday that killed several people.
41% : Last year, the Trump administration bypassed a normal congressional review process and approved a nearly $3 billion sale to Israel that included more than 35,500 of the bombs.
38% : Militants have carried out shooting attacks on Israeli troops, and Israel says its strikes are in response to those and other ceasefire violations.
36% : The Hamas-led attack on southern Israel in 2023 killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.
35% : The package, which was reported earlier by The Washington Post, comes as Israel has faced increasing international isolation over its war in Gaza in response to the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas.
35% : Israel's offensive in Gaza to retaliate has killed more than 73,264 Palestinians, including those killed since the ceasefire, Gaza's Health Ministry said.
34% : The Trump administration plans to deliver powerful 2,000-pound bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal.
28% : That is even after Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a key Mideast negotiator, met with Netanyahu last month in an effort to push the ceasefire deal forward and asked Israel to reduce its attacks.
13% : The Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000-pound bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal, weapons that prompted such concerns about the possibility of mass casualties in Gaza that the Biden administration paused their delivery two years ago.

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