The new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee pointed Thursday to possible policy shifts affecting Egypt, Turkey, the war in Ukraine and other issues around the globe as he took over the powerful leadership of the panel, replacing indicted Sen. Bob Menendez.
Sen. Ben Cardin, a veteran Maryland Democrat, will have an abbreviated term leading the committee because his term expires in January 2025 and he is not seeking reelection. He described him unexpectedly inheriting the chairmanship, with its power to help shape how the United States approaches the rest of the world, as a “pinch yourself” moment.
The indictment alleges that included helping Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi’s government overcome human-rights restrictions limiting a small portion of what is more than $1 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Egypt.Cardin, before becoming chairman, had condemned the Biden administration’s decision this year to override a human-rights prohibition on $235 million of this year’s military aid to Egypt.
Cardin made clear he was open to considering moving forward on the sales, if he is satisfied with points, including any additional threat to Greece and on Turkey’s human rights. In Turkey, some news media are celebrating Menendez’s legal difficulties. A CNN Turk political panel gleefully showed the indicted senator as a sobbing SpongeBob SquarePants.
Tellingly, Cuba did not even come up as Cardin ran down a list of his foreign policy priorities with reporters Thursday. “China’s watching” whether Americans stand by Ukraine’s defense, to guide China’s decision on how far it pushes to assert its claim to Taiwan, Cardin said.Cardin also addressed the Biden administration’s push to broker an agreement for the first broad diplomatic relations between U.S. ally Israel and Gulf heavyweight Saudi Arabia as a “game-changer in the region,” and one he was excited about.
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