{"id":18955,"date":"2024-05-10T12:47:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/no-choice-but-to-impeach-biden-over-delayed-israel-aid-gop-senator-says\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:47:25","slug":"no-choice-but-to-impeach-biden-over-delayed-israel-aid-gop-senator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/10\/no-choice-but-to-impeach-biden-over-delayed-israel-aid-gop-senator-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No choice\u2019 but to impeach Biden over delayed Israel aid, GOP senator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">A Republican senator is renewing the call to impeach President Biden following reports of aid to Israel being delayed during its war with the terrorist organization Hamas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u2018The House has no choice but to impeach Biden based on the Trump-Ukraine precedent of withholding foreign aid to help with reelection. Only with Biden, it\u2019s true,\u2019 Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., wrote on X on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A recently passed $95 billion supplemental foreign aid package included roughly $26 billion for both Israel and humanitarian aid for areas including Gaza. The aid was encouraged by the Biden administration, which had proposed it nearly six months prior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cotton suggested that Biden should be impeached for delaying an aid shipment to Israel, which he claimed had to do with the president\u2019s re-election bid as he balances a divided Democratic Party on the Israel war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House Counsel\u2019s office did not immediately provide comment to Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Israeli officials claimed the U.S. had paused a shipment of ammunition from the U.S., as Axios reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre maintained that the U.S.\u2019s commitment to Israel is \u2018ironclad,\u2019 despite the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The report was ultimately confirmed by a U.S. official, who said the administration paused shipments of two types of precision bombs to Israel. One shipment would provide 2,000-pound bombs, with 1,800 to be delivered. The second held 500-pound bombs, with 1,700 to be delivered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The U.S. position has been that Israel should not launch a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million people are sheltering with nowhere else to go,\u2019 a U.S. official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are especially focused on the end-use of the 2,000-lb bombs and the impact they could have in dense urban settings as we have seen in other parts of Gaza. We have not made a final determination on how to proceed with this shipment,\u2019 they added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Per the official, \u2018None of these shipments have anything to do with the Israel supplemental appropriations passed last month. All are drawn from previously appropriated funds, some many years ago.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Biden drew a red line for ally Israel. \u2018I made it clear that if they go into Rafah \u2013 they haven\u2019t gone in Rafah yet \u2013 if they go into Rafah, I\u2019m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities \u2013 that deal with that problem,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately confirm the delayed shipment when prompted by Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic-led House\u2019s impeachment of then-President Trump in 2019 indicted him on a charge of abuse of power, arguing he withheld aid to Ukraine while asking the country\u2019s leader to investigate his political rivals, including Biden. The Senate acquitted Trump on the House\u2019s charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cotton argued the same precedent should apply to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s campaign did not immediately provide comment to Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Republicans in the House have appeared eager to impeach the president, heavily investigating Biden\u2019s family\u2019s business ties, particularly his son Hunter Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., did not immediately provide comment to Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 Liz Friden and Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican senator is renewing the call to impeach President Biden following reports of aid to Israel being delayed during its war with the terrorist organization Hamas.\u00a0 \u2018The House has no choice but to impeach Biden based on the Trump-Ukraine precedent of withholding foreign aid to help with reelection. Only with Biden, it\u2019s true,\u2019 Sen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}