House Democratic leaders are pressing the White House to explain its decision to freeze some US military aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces after officials in the Donald Trump administration refused to answer repeated questions from Congress during multiple meetings about the decision, Al-Monitor has learned.
On Saturday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., wrote a public letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney that pressed him on his agency’s decision put $105 million in foreign military financing to Lebanon on hold in October.
