US skips congressional review to approve munitions sale to Israel

• Sale fast-tracks 12,000 thousand-pound bomb bodies in $152m deal • Secretary of State Rubio cites ‘emergency’ to justify sidestepping lawmakers • Democrat slams White House, calls it an ‘emergency of its own creation’ WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Friday it has approved a sale worth $151.8 million to Israel for munitions and munitions support, without submitting it for congressional review. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that an emergency existed requiring an imm...

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