U.S. and Israel to Integrate Military Budgets to Shield Funding from Congressional Oversight, Opposition

Interview with Annelle Sheline, research fellow with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Between The Lines’ Melinda Tuhus spoke with Annelle Sheline, who resigned from the State Department in March 2024 in protest over President Biden’s unconditional support for Israel’s military operations in Gaza. She now serves as a research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Here she explains the danger of integrating the U.S. and Israeli military budgets would present and the likelihood of its approval by Congress as part of the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act.