The United States Department has revealed that it's going to review Barack Obama's last minute decision to defy congressional Republicans and release $221M aid to Palestine last week.
Just hours before Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday,
former secretary of State, John Kerry announced that Obama's
administration will release the money to Palestine territory but the
State Department has said it will review the aid and see if it falls in
line with Trump's administration policies.
The
congress had approved funds for the Palestine Aid in the 2015 and 2016
budgets, but they were placed on holds by two major republican
lawmakers, Ed Royce and Kay Granger, because they felt Palestine was
seeking membership in international organizations.
Trump,
by the way sees the Palestine and Israel relationship in a different
way to how Obama saw it. Obama for some time has been trying to support
political and security reforms in Palestine while Trump is a big
supporter of Israel and has even invited Israel's prime
minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Washington next month.
Kay Granger of Texas, who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, released a statement on Tuesday
saying: “I am deeply disappointed that President Obama defied
congressional oversight and released $221 million to the Palestinian
territories.”
She added: “I worked to make
sure that no American taxpayer dollars would fund the Palestinian
Authority unless very strict conditions were met. While none of these
funds will go to the Palestinian Authority because of those conditions,
they will go to programs in the Palestinian territories that were still
under review by Congress. The Obama Administration’s decision to release
these funds was inappropriate.”
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