Toward the beginning of the Omnibus spending bill at page 415 and 416 is a quarter billion dollars for "enhanced border security" for the nations of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.
Not less than $150,000,000 of it shall be for Jordan though.
Not less than $150,000,000 of it shall be for Jordan though.
If you skip about about 1000 pages from the Jordanian border security funding section of the US government budget, you'll find that "not less than" $1.65 billon is for Jordan's government overall, but they're required to use $425,000,000 of the American dollars for military.
In total, page 1310 of the new US budget explains that a bit over $6 billion in taxpayer money will be for financing foreign militaries, but by law, at least $3.3 billion of that will have to be for Israel.
The spending bill says military aid for Lebanon can only be used for 1) professionalizing their military 2) strengthening their border 3) implementing a UN resolution.
The money will not be supplied however if their military is controlled by terrorists, it clarifies.
The money will not be supplied however if their military is controlled by terrorists, it clarifies.
Bashar al-Assad's Syria will receive $40,000,000 according to page 1456 of the spending bill, but it will only be in "non-lethal" assistance, and they can't use it to do anything that legitimizes the government of Iran.
According to page 1480 of the spending bill, $3,000,000 will be spent on assisting democracy activists in Hong Kong.
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