{"id":1472996,"date":"2024-01-30T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=d64e86e9bc23cf342de5cdd013343ae8"},"modified":"2024-01-30T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:28:11","slug":"19-lawmakers-press-blinken-on-unapproved-arms-transfers-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/30\/19-lawmakers-press-blinken-on-unapproved-arms-transfers-to-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Lawmakers Press Blinken on Unapproved Arms Transfers to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Biden administration twice bypassed Congress to approve arms transfers to Israel as it wages a genocidal war on Gaza, 19 U.S. lawmakers on Monday asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to explain the &ldquo;highly unusual&rdquo; transactions. &ldquo;The Arms Export Control Act (AECA) requires the State Department, on behalf of the president, to provide Congress advance notification of government-to...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/19-lawmakers-press-blinken-on-unapproved-arms-transfers-to-israel\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/19-lawmakers-press-blinken-on-unapproved-arms-transfers-to-israel\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Congress and the American public deserve thorough answers,\u201d the Democrats, led by Elizabeth Warren, wrote in a letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5272,73342,1539,1328,3545,287,82,4,473],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472997,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472996\/revisions\/1472997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}