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The US State Department announced that it has approved potential sale more than $ 1.4 billion helicopter and parts of F-16 fighter rays to the United Arab Emirates, just in front of the President Donald Trump Visit to the Nation of the Middle East.
The proposed sale includes $ 1.32 billion for CH-47 F Chinook helicopters and $ 130 million for Parts F-16, State Department said on Monday.
The agency informed the Congress of the Sales Sales, although some Democrats had previously announced that they could hesitate to give the green light to such a sale.
This is coming because Trump is expected to travel to the UAE later this week for the final stop on his four -day trip to the Middle East. He also visits Saudi Arabia and Katar on his first big international journey of his second administration.
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The US State Department announced that it has approved potential sales more than $ 1.4 billion by helicopters and parts of F-16 combat nozzles to the United Arab Emirates. (Go Bum-Jun/Newsis via AP, File)
The UAE has already vowed to spend $ 1.4 trillion in US investments in the next decade, which will be expected to focus on semiconduct, production, energy and artificial intelligence.
Weapons transfer and defensive trade is overseen by Pentagon’s Defense Cooperation Agency and State Department.
State department first re -examines contracts that other countries wanted to ensure that they fulfill the goals of the US government. If approved, the Agency notifies the Congress of Sales. Federal legislators may refuse the proposed sales, but if they decide not to, the US government continues negotiations.
Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn, said on Monday before the State Department announcement that he would “block any weapon sales to a nation that works directly personal business with Trump”, citing an investment company that has supported a UAE that has put two billion dollars in Trump’s cryptocurrency and administration of the US president. Airbou 747-8.
US President Donald Trump speaks during the Saudi-US investment forum at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images)
“We should take a full discussion and vote,” Murphy wrote about X. “Investing by UAE -Au Trump Crypto, and Qatar’s donation of the aircraft is a nuclear graph. The unacceptable corruption of our foreign policy.”
“Usually the sale of weapons goes forward without a voice,” he continued. “But every senator can complain and force the complete discussion and vote of the Senate. I will do so for any military contract with a nation that personally repays Trump. We cannot act as if it were a normal foreign policy.”
In January, Senator Chris van Hollen, D-md., And Rev. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., Expressed opposition to $ 1.2 billion UAE weapons salepointing to a country that provides faster support weapons in Sudan, which now accused of war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
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State Department informed Congress about the proposed sale of UAE. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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The Congress has previously tried to block Trump to complete the sale of weapons for the Gulf States, including in 2019 during their first term, when legislators marketed with Saudi Arabia agreements and UAE for concern about civilian casualties in the Yemen’s war, since the Saudi coalition is accused of most civilian deaths.
However, Trump referred to a provision that allowed sales to pass immediately without a period of audit in cases considered urgent.
