It would also stop requiring the State Department to submit reports to Congress on issues like human rights abroad.

The House is poised to expand the use of a secretive mechanism for funneling weapons to Israel. Hidden deep in a must-pass State Department funding bill is a provision that would allow for unlimited transfers of U.S. weapons to a special Israel-based stockpile in the next fiscal year, strengthening a pathway for giving American weapons to Israel with reduced public scrutiny.

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