The Senate overwhelmingly rejected two resolutions of disapproval Thursday from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who revived a failed endeavor to halt the sales of $8.8 billion in U.S. bombs and other munitions to Israel.
The outcome was expected but underscored the persistent rift in the Democratic Caucus over the United States’s role in the contentious foreign conflict. The recycled effort by Sanders, a staunch Jewish critic of the U.S. ally’s handling of the war against Hamas, was also defeated in the last Congress.
Two separate privileged measures, which allowed Sanders to usurp the Republican majority and force a vote, failed in near identical vote tallies. The first was shot down 15-82, and the second was defeated 15-83.
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Flanked by a poster of Gaza’s war-torn landscape and
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