The U.S. government currently provides Egypt up to $1.3 BILLION in annual “foreign military financing,” effectively giving the Egyptian government U.S.-taxpayer-funded grants to buy U.S.-made weapons and military equipment.
That unconditional aid means the State Department will keep signing off on arms sales to Egypt every year — just like the sale of 198 Raytheon-made Rolling Airframe Missiles we saw in February — despite the government’s lengthy résumé of past and current human rights abuses.
We need to break this cycle NOW. And a growing coalition in Congress agrees. But they’ll need our help, because we need to go big — and push Congress to make the pernicious weapons-profits feedback loop an impossibility.
Join the campaign by adding your name to our petition now, and demand Congress end arms sales to Egypt — and all human rights abusers.