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Federal court allows action to enforce the Taylor Force Act
Leonard Grunstein
July 5, 2024

…Shockingly, the Biden administration restored and even increased funding [to the Palestinian Authority], in flagrant violation of the act. Under the act, such funding is illegal unless the secretary of state certifies in writing to the appropriate congressional committees that, among other things, the P.A., PLO and any successor or affiliated organizations are taking credible steps to end acts of violence against U.S. and Israeli citizens; have terminated terror payments; and have revoked or invalidated any law or decree providing for the same. However, the secretary was unable so to certify because it would have been flatly untrue. READ MORE

WALL STREET JOURNAL Where’s the Biden Report on Iran’s Nuke? President Biden says Donald Trump is a lawbreaker, but his Administration is hardly any better. A case in point is its failure to file a report to Congress required by law on the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Sen. Lindsey Graham helped to write Public Law 117-263, Section 5593 of the Iran Nuclear Weapons Capability and Terror–ism Monitoring Act of 2022. It requires the Administration to send Congress an assessment every six months about Iran’s progress on uranium enrichment and other nuclear weapons development. Mr. Graham has been asking the White House for weeks about the report, and he’s finally lost patience.