According to Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst, President Joe Biden is “playing politicians” with the life of Americans who are held captive by the Hamas-based terrorist organization. She slammed the 81- season- old Democrat head for “playing into Hamas’s hands” and “making terrorists cheer, rather of tremble in fear” by withholding support from the nation’s “greatest ally in the region”, Israel.
Ernst, a veteran of conflict and head of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, alleged the president of utilizing American life as pawns for social functions in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Friday.
” Biden is playing politicians with American life”, she said.  ,
” Yet while Iran- backed Hamas is holding our residents prisoner, this president is withholding aid from Israel to clean these terrorists out”, she continued, adding that he is “playing into Hamas’s hands” and “making terrorists cheer, instead of tremble in fear”.
Republicans are continuing to criticize the Biden administration for denying Israel access to crucial weapons in its fight against the Hamas evil group, accusing the president of” carrying water for the pro-Hamas crowd” and the Democrat group’s “pro-Hamas aircraft” for his own personal political gain.
In a statement released in response to Biden’s risks, Sen. Ernst commitment“>accused the leader of having broken his presumably “ironclad” devotion to the Jewish State:  ,
He has not right to deny weapons from our most important ally in the region, despite the fact that his peace has failed to stop terrorist attacks in the Middle East. Israel may continue to support the United States as they fight for their right to exist and return Hamas-held captives. The Biden administration does n’t acknowledge that the precision weapons he is denying are the necessary tools to prevent civilian casualties because he plays politics with these lives and abandons American citizens to terrorists funded by Iran.  ,
The Iowa lawmaker vowed to hold him accountable for “holding him accountable for his earlier stated conviction that providing hands to Israel is crucial” despite the Iowa senator’s” trying to speak out of both sides of his mouth”. Biden was also accused of “hurting our ability to bring our hostages home,” she added.
Along with Sen. Ted Budd ( R- NC), Ernst, who recently returned from a visit to Israel, had previously demanded answers from Biden on what ammunition his administration was reportedly withholding from Israel, if it was approved by Congress, and why Congress was not notified:
Biden replaced leadership with appeasement. pic. twitter.com/BCLcx5hf54
— Joni Ernst ( @SenJoniErnst ) May 9, 2024
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump accused the” crooked” and “weak” commander- in- chief of” taking the side of these] Hamas ] terrorists” just as he has” sided with the Radical Mobs taking over our college campuses”:  ,
According to Joe Biden, whether or not he knows, he will keep his weapons at hand when Israel fights to put an end to Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Hamas murdered thousands of innocent civilians, including babies, and are still holding Americans hostage, if the hostages are still … pic. twitter.com/eyfYp7qnV2
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDaily Posts ) May 9, 2024
According to a report from Breitbart News, the Biden administration is preventing Israel from receiving 3,500 bombs because it is currently fighting Hamas, a U.S.-designated Islamic terror group that attacked the Jewish state in October with an unprecedented and particularly brutal massacre.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday that Israel is withholding a shipment of weapons from Israel because of concerns about Hamas’s ongoing attack on Rafah despite the Jewish state’s security depending on the dissolution of Hamas’s remaining battalions there.
Lloyd Austin, secretary of defense, during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 ( Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty ).
In response, Biden later confirmed on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront that he had begun to restrict the flow of American weapons to Israel because of Rafah operations.
” I’ve made it clear to Bibi]Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] and the War Cabinet. They’re not going to get our support if, in fact, they go into these population centers”, he said, referring to those in Rafah. ” We’re not walking away from Israel’s security. We’re walking away from Israel’s ability to wage war in those areas”.
” We’ve held up the weapons”, he added:
President Biden:” I hear the message” of pro- Palestinian protesters pic. twitter.com/l06YnrZrog
— Erin Burnett OutFront ( @Out FrontCNN) May 9, 2024
In response, radical” Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar ( D- MN) celebrated the president’s declaration, insisting that” this is what young people across the country were protesting for”.
Isra Hirsi and Ilhan Omar at Columbia University’s Barnard College ( Isra Hirsi/Instagram )
In contrast to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, critics of Biden’s decision have argued that holding back weapons that Congress has already authorized is unconstitutional and against the Imposition Control Act of 1974.
Senator Ernst, a co-chair of the Abraham Accords Caucus and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was one of the 35 Senate Republicans who urged Biden to address the administration’s alleged plan to accept Gazan refugees as a “national security risk” for America.  ,
We are not confident that your administration can properly check this high-risk population for terrorist ties and sympathies before admitting them into the United States, wrote the president,” With more than a third of Gazans supporting the Hamas militants.”
Sen. Ernst criticized Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY ) for making an unprecedented Senate speech calling for fresh elections in Israel in March. She claimed that the leading Democrat was “playing right into Hamas ‘ hands” and “turning his back on our greatest ally in the Middle East.”
