Emergency waivers move arms for Israel, UAE to speed lane

Amid its war on Iran — now frozen by a tenuous ceasefire — the Trump administration has been exploiting emergency waivers to fast-track controversial foreign arms sales to Israel and Gulf states, tossing Congressional oversight to the wayside.On March 6, Secretary of State Marco Rubio invoked the Arms Export Control Act’s emergency waiver provision to bypass Congressional review of a nearly $660 million weapons sale to Israel — citing the existence of “an emergency… that requires the immediate s...