Democratic leaders in the House are backing a measure to provide U.S. assistance to Iraqi militia groups that are known to be dominated by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
A Democrat-led amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, the sprawling annual bill that funds U.S. military operations around the world, would permit U.S. funding for Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, a confederation of militia groups that work alongside the corps's Quds Force, Iran's paramilitary fighting brigade.
The amendment, authored by Rep. Brad Sherman (D., Calif.), was slipped into a larger package of measures that are backed by Democratic leadership and expected to easily pass into the larger National Defense Authorization Act, which is set to be finalized this week.
Update 3:54 p.m.: Sherman’s amendment, which came under fire from Republicans, has been altered to remove any mention of U.S. assistance to the Iraqi PMF. The revamped measure "expresses the sense of Congress that the U.S. should work with the government of Iraq to achieve the voluntary and safe return of ethno-religious minorities to the Nineveh Plains region of Iraq." It also would require the secretary of state to provide a strategy for achieving that outcome.....snip~
Dems Back Measure To Give Aid to Iraqi Militia Groups Tied to Iran (freebeacon.com)
Democrat Leadership had to hurry and clean this up. Still Brad Sherman's Name should be set out to the entire country as to what he did here and how he got it sneaked into the NDAA. He wanted to help Iran. Now let the people deal with him how they see fit.
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