Iron Dome plus-up would bust agreed cap on Israeli BMD spending

摘要

The Biden administration's gambit to provide an additional $1 billion in fiscal year 2022 funds for Israel's Iron Dome air defense system would, if enacted, mark the third time in six years missile defense funding for Israel has exceeded the $500 million annual cap Israel and the United States agreed to in 2016. House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today initially proposed a spending bill that included the funds for the Israeli-developed air defense system along with a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through Dec. 3 - before withdrawing the Iron Dome measure after meeting behind closed doors with colleagues. DeLauro pledged the funds would instead be included in a final fiscal year 2022 defense spending bill, adding that removing the money from the CR would not harm the Iron Dome program.