Friday afternoon, the House narrowly passed a defense bill full of Republican culture war priorities. Hopeful efforts earlier in the week to rein in U.S. foreign policy fizzled out by week’s end, including an amendment to block the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine and other countries. On this week’s Deconstructed, Ryan Grim is joined by Erik Sperling, executive director of Just Foreign Policy, and The Intercept’s Deputy Editor Nausicaa Renner to discuss how a bipartisan bill to prevent the Biden administration from sending cluster bombs to Ukraine went from gaining momentum to being undermined by another bill introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Transcript coming soon.
This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by Deconstructed.
Deconstructed | Radio Free (2023-07-15T21:30:00+00:00) Cluster Bomb Fight in the House. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2023/07/15/cluster-bomb-fight-in-the-house/
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