Pausing military aid seen as key tool in a president's foreign policy toolbox

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Pausing military aid seen as key tool in a president's foreign policy toolbox
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Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush made similar pauses.

Although congressional Republicans have been slamming President Joe Biden over his decision to withhold certain bomb shipments to Israel, such a move is not unprecedented, as they've claimed.

MORE: Biden administration steps up pressure on Israel over cease-fire, hostage talks as Rafah assault intensifies Sullivan said that there wasn't much political criticism of Reagan or Bush's aid pauses both domestically and internationally because the conflict in the Middle East was not at the front and center of foreign policy as it is today.

"And my commitment to the safety of the Jewish people, the security of Israel, and its right to exist as an independent Jewish state is ironclad, even when we disagree," Biden said Tuesday in the U.S. Holocaust Museum's Days of Remembrance speech. McConnell and other Republicans also accused Biden of caving into the pressure from pro-Palestinian protesters from around the country who have called for a cease-fire and colleges and universities to divest from Israel because of civilian deaths.

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