Joe Biden’s State Department is using an emergency provision in order to bypass Congress and sell 13,000 rounds of tank ammo to Israel.

According to the New York Times, there’s nothing Congress can do to stop it:

The State Department is pushing through a government sale to Israel of 13,000 rounds of tank ammunition, bypassing a congressional review process that is generally required for arms sales to foreign nations, according to a State Department official and an online post by the Defense Department on Saturday.

The State Department notified congressional committees at 11 p.m. on Friday that it was moving ahead with the sale, valued at more than $106 million, even though Congress had not finished an informal review of a larger order from Israel for tank rounds.

The department invoked an emergency provision in the Arms Export Control Act, the State Department official as well as a congressional official told The New York Times. The arms shipment has been put on an expedited track, and Congress has no power to stop it.

The Defense Department posted a notification of the sale before noon on Saturday. It said Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken had informed Congress on Friday that “an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale.”

It is the first time that the State Department had invoked the emergency provision for an arms shipment to the Middle East since May 2019, when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo approved weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a move that was widely criticized by lawmakers and by some career officials inside the State Department.

This is going to upset Democrats far more than it will Republicans. I expect Republicans members will simply object to Biden bypassing Congress. But there are many in the Democrat party, from grassroots to Congress, who hate that Biden supports Israel’s defensive war in Gaza. A move like this surely isn’t going to help Biden’s reelection campaign.