Posted on 01/23/2017 2:10:29 PM PST by Olog-hai
Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.
A State Department official and several congressional aides said the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning. The official said former Secretary of State John Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time Thursday. The aides said written notification dated Jan. 20 was sent to Congress just hours before Donald Trump took the oath of office.
In addition to the $221 million for the Palestinians, the Obama administration also told Congress on Friday it was going ahead with the release of another $6 million in foreign affairs spending, including $4 million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for U.N. organizations, the congressional aides said. The aides and the State Department official weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity. …
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Wonder if this is something that Trump can cancel? If it is illegal.
D^%$, stop payment on that check!
Absolute lawlessness.
Insiders helping the VOMIT FROM HELL transfer all that money!! DRAIN THE FREAKIN SWAMP!!!......NOW!!!
This little pri## funded all his friends and pet projects with our tax dollars before he left office, and we cant do a thing?
Now does everyone see why the founders insisted on a natural born citizen?
More theft and more terrorist murder attacks. Obama wins again
The a-hole acted like he was president of a charity that wasn’t 20 trillion in debt.
I’ll just take this as more proof of how much he hates us. Where was the GOP? Why couldn’t they stop this?
In addition to the $221 million for the Palestinians, the Obama administration also told Congress on Friday it was going ahead with the release of another $6 million in foreign affairs spending, including $4 million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for U.N. organizations, the congressional aides said. The aides and the State Department official weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity. …
Please explain the process. If Congress was blocking the funds then Obama had no authority to give anyone the money. More partial truth and discussion of unknown and illegal discrectionary funds will go nowhere. Obama is just giving HIMSELF money by using a middleman.
Obama had to get his kickback for his lifestyle. Investigate his wealth.
I remember that Palestinians were soliciting campaign funds for Obama by phone. He gave them a huge payday shortly after he took office. This is the bookend to that and a big fat thank-you for the Palestinian woman activist who organized the pink- hatted march on DC this weekend.
The word used was released.
I take that to mean it is gone
So, it will be awhile before they feel the pain of no American Money
In a related story, Mahmoud Abbas’ Swiss bank account received a deposit of $221 million dollars later that same day.
Wow, that’ll buy a lot of vests.
A farewell gesture for his lifelong moslem buddies and one last chance to p*ss away taxpayer money seized by obama’s Marxist regime.
or hotel suites in Lausanne
Bounce the checks
or guarnishee his pension
More money for the Globalists, terrorists, and climate con-men !
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