{"id":1951147,"date":"2023-06-19T15:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-call-on-biden-to-expand-abraham-accords\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T19:36:33","slug":"lawmakers-call-on-biden-to-expand-abraham-accords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-call-on-biden-to-expand-abraham-accords\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers urge Biden to broaden Abraham Accords."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flawmakers-call-on-biden-to-expand-abraham-accords%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1951147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Lawmakers Call for Expansion of Abraham Accords to Counter Chinese and Russian Influence in Africa<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a letter to the State Department, 25 members of Congress, led by Rep. John James (R., Mich.), urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to extend the Trump-era normalization agreement to more African countries, as reported by Fox News.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We believe it is in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-war-vets-warn-biden-against-shuttering-gitmo\/\" title=\"Congressional War Vets Warn Biden Against Shuttering Gitmo\">national security interest<\/a>, as well as in the interests of sustainability, for the Biden administration to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olympic-committee-faces-criticism-over-refusal-to-answer-questions-about-xinjiang\/\" title=\"Olympic Committee Faces Criticism Over Refusal To Answer Questions About Xinjiang\">continue strengthening<\/a> and expanding the accords and to further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-call-on-biden-to-expand-abraham-accords\/\" title=\"Lawmakers urge Biden to broaden Abraham Accords.\">promote normalization<\/a> with Israel on the African continent,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As President Joe Biden&#8217;s clout in the Middle East weakens, lawmakers are questioning the Biden administration&#8217;s lack of attempts to expand the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy-4-accomplishments-to-remember\/\" title=\"President Trump\u2019s Foreign Policy Legacy: 4 Accomplishments To Remember\">groundbreaking agreement<\/a> as China widens its influence in the region. One of the signers, Rep. Cory Mills (R., Fla.), said that Africa is &#8220;a key element&#8221; in China&#8217;s Belt and Road Initiative, which U.S. officials warn is a military and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-demand-answers-on-commerce-secretary-raimondos-financial-ties-to-china\/\" title=\"House Republicans Demand Answers on Commerce Secretary Raimondo\u2019s Financial Ties to China\u00a0\">economic security threat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe this broader framework of engagement can be vital to American efforts to combat endeavors by China and Russia to undermine sovereignty and stability within the African continent,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever we have been able to help support [our] allies in varying countries,&#8221; Mills told Fox News, it &#8220;certainly brings about a stabilization element to this \u2026 and it builds less reliance on adversarial relations, whether that be Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department as of Monday morning has not responded to the June 1 letter, according to Mills.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican and Democratic lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to broaden the Abraham Accords to counter Chinese and Russian sway in Africa. Led by Rep. John James (R., Mich.), 25 members of Congress penned a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, requesting an extension of the Trump-era normalization agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1951148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[23315,22514,3620,25937,3673,4927],"class_list":["post-1951147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-abraham","tag-accords","tag-biden","tag-broaden","tag-lawmakers","tag-urge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}