Several parts of the aid are now temporarily on hold, including ... the delivery of Apache helicopters that the Egyptian government has already paid for,
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so this is not aid..
the helicopters were paid for by Egypt...
This has to be a NONO...
but what does that-guy-in-my-White-House TM care ???
The “paid for” part is a little more complex. The Egypts don’t have cash to pay for anything. The Apaches would have already been credited to their account-—their account being funded by the 1.6 billion that we give them in aid. The 1.6 B is not cash mostly, but credit they can use to buy US made weapons. Right or wrong cutting back on that aid knocks Americans out of work.
And then there is the “witholding” part: it’s been done before. Remember when we held the F-14s from Iran when the Mullahs took over.? The Shah had actually paid cash for the F-14s and we still kept them-—I don’t know if they ever got them.