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Pledges for sustained US military aid for Arab countries could face pushback from <\/strong>lawmakers<\/strong>, Ellen Mitchell writes in The Hill<\/a>. The news came after US Secretary of Defense James Mattis\u2019 pledges of continued support to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s always elements within the Congress that have different views on different countries, but there isn\u2019t a bipartisan consensus on any of these guys \u2014 Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt,\u201d James Carafano, a foreign and defense policy expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pledges for sustained US military aid for Arab countries could face pushback from lawmakers, Ellen Mitchell writes in The Hill. 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