Overview

• Sanders’s joint resolutions sought to halt $675 million in bomb sales and the shipment of 20,000 assault rifles to Israel but failed to achieve a majority vote.
• A record 27 Senate Democrats backed the measures, more than doubling support from his previous attempt and revealing deepening party divisions over Israel policy.
• All Senate Republicans opposed the resolutions, with Foreign Relations Committee Chair Jim Risch blaming Hamas for Gaza’s humanitarian collapse.
• Joint resolutions of disapproval have never blocked U.S. arms transfers because they require passage by both chambers of Congress and a presidential veto override.
• The United Nations and a top international food‐crisis authority warn that a worst‐case famine is now unfolding in Gaza, intensifying calls for humanitarian relief and policy shifts.