Trump to clear $8bn Saudi weapons sale over Iran tensions (loophole)

[Victoria33]

The BBC lead-in headline was a bit different. The lead-in said a loophole is being used, one can read about it below.

Trump approves $8bn Saudi weapons sale over Iran tensions

The president uses a legal loophole to push through the arms deal without Congressional approval.

www.bbc.com

Mr Trump evoked a rarely used aspect of federal law to push through the $8bn (£6bn) deal, which would ordinarily need to be approved by Congress.

He did so by declaring that ongoing tensions with Iran amounted to a national emergency.

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On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo notified Congress of the administration’s decision to make the sale. In a letter, widely reported in US media, he said that “Iranian malign activity” required the “immediate sale” of weapons.

“[Iran’s] activity poses a fundamental threat to the stability of the Middle East and to American security at home and abroad,” he wrote.

They have info that at least, I don’t have, though, I’d lean against this kind of deal from what I know.

Trump at this moment, if I have this correct, is heading to Japan to meet with Abe, their leader… and then, the Japanese leader, Abe, has said, he could meet up with Iran in mid-June, keeping up with the news.