US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday pressed lawmakers to urgently pass the Biden administration’s $105 billion national security funding request which includes significant funding for Israel and Ukraine’s war efforts, arguing that the two conflicts are connected and failing to pass the aid together will embolden US adversaries around the world.
They appeared at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing as the crisis in the Middle East deepens, with the humanitarian situation in Gaza growing even more dire and the civilian death toll mounting amid the Israeli forces’ expanded operations in the strip.
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