{"id":253956,"date":"2026-04-16T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=253956"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:43:51","slug":"us-senate-republicans-support-trumps-arms-sale-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/253956\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate republicans support Trump\u2019s arms sale to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The US Senate on Wednesday blocked two resolutions that would have stopped the sale &zwnj;of some $450 million in bombs and bulldozers to Israel, as President Donald Trump&rsquo;s fellow Republicans rallied behind his support for the Jewish state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-senate-republicans-back-trump-military-sales-israel-2026-04-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>But support for the resolutions from a large majority of the 47-member Senate Democratic caucus underscored growing frustration within that party about the effect on civilians &#8203;from Israeli strikes on Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Senate on Wednesday blocked two resolutions that would have stopped the sale &zwnj;of some $450 million in bombs and bulldozers to Israel, as President Donald Trump&rsquo;s fellow Republicans rallied behind his support for the Jewish state, Reuters writes. But support for the resolutions from a large majority of the 47-member Senate Democratic caucus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":253895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253957,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253956\/revisions\/253957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}