The Donald Trump administration is doubling down on its 3-year-old pitch to Congress to overhaul foreign military aid — and it’s using one of Capitol Hill’s favorite countries to do it.

The State Department’s 2021 budget, released Monday, highlights Tunisia’s request to purchase $500 million in US-made light attack aircraft to bolster the administration's request for $8 billion in global loan authority under the foreign military financing (FMF) program.

The budget request says that while the full range of partners interested in foreign military financing for fiscal year 2021 is not yet known, the government of Tunisia is specifically interested in a $500 million loan to procure the aircraft for the Tunisian military. The State Department said that having global loan authority for foreign military financing "would allow the administration to provide financing to support this sale, as well as other future sales to support countries pursuing the divesture of Russian legacy equipment.”

Foreign military financing currently provides US security partners with grants to spend on American defense equipment. President Trump’s 2021 budget frames the $8 billion loan request as a complement to the $5.5 billion in foreign military financing grants it has also asked Congress to fund. The 2021 budget request would allocate $40 million of those grants for Tunisia.