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众议院外交事务部批准三项军售法案，其中包括对台支持
该委员会否决了一项法案，该法案允许任何国家利用外国军事融资通过商业销售流程购买武器。
来源:美国防务快讯网WASHINGTON — The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday cleared three bills that would speed up the process for countries seeking to buy US weaponry, but voted down one measure that would have loosened re strictions on Foreign Military Financing (FMF) dollars.
That bill — which would have allowed any country to use FMF to buy US weaponry through direct commercial sales — was taken down in a 23-23 vote after two Republicans, Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry and Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, sided with the Democrats.
FMF funding are dollars which are given out as grants to foreign countries, with the stipulation the money can only be spent on US-made weapons.这些美元作为年度预算过程的一部分进行分配。对于 2027 财年，国务院请求 FMF 提供 52.5 亿美元的资金。
Allowing FMF money to fund sales through the commercial process, instead of the more stringent Foreign Military Sales (FMS) process overseen by the State Department, would allow key partners like Ukraine and Taiwan to buy US equipment faster, said the bill’s sponsor Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Wash.
在辩论中，佩里和伯切特都没有表示他们即将反对该法案，这使得该法案的失败有点令人意外。然而，民主党人却利用这种措辞对特朗普家族参与国防初创企业的情况提出质疑。
New York Rep. Gregory Meeks, the committee’s ranking Democrat, argued that without the State Department’s oversight of the FMS program, FMF dollars would become vulnerable to corruption.他补充说，该法案提出的改变最终可能会给特朗普的两个长子带来经济利益，他们投资了国防初创公司 Powerus。
Meanwhile Rep. Johnny Olszewski, D-Md., offered an amendment to the Baumgartner bill that would ensure that FMF money does not finance any direct commercial sale that would financially benefit a family member of the president or vice president.