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Senator Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Force Continued Arms Sales to Israel – RedState

On Tuesday, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced a bill to force the Biden administration to resume providing arms and munitions to Israel in support of their ongoing war against Hamas terrorists. The bill already has a counterpart bill in the House of Representatives.

Cotton introduced a Senate version of a bill currently circulating in the House that would bypass the Biden administration’s pause in arms sales to Israel, which the White House has been aggressively lobbying against. House Democrats in the narrowly controlled GOP House are fighting to kill the bill, and Cotton’s Senate version is likely to initiate a similar fight in the upper chamber.

Like the House version, the bill would force the Biden administration to complete all scheduled arms deliveries to Israel and blow past a pause in key munitions that the White House says is necessary to force Israel into abandoning…

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