Stop Arming Terrorists

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Mr. Speaker, under U.S. law, it is illegal for you or me or any American to provide any type of assistance to al Qaeda, ISIS, or other terrorist groups. If we broke this law, we would be thrown in jail. Yet the U.S. Government has been violating this law for years, directly and indirectly supporting allies and partners of groups like al Qaeda and ISIS with money, weapons, intelligence, and other support in their fight to overthrow the Syrian Government.

A recent New York Times article confirmed that ``rebel groups'' supported by the U.S. ``have entered into battlefield alliances with the affiliate of al Qaeda in Syria, formerly known as Al Nusra.'' The Wall Street Journal reports that rebel grounds are ``doubling down on their alliance'' with al Qaeda. This alliance has rendered the phrase ``moderate rebels'' meaningless. We must stop this madness. We must stop arming terrorists.

I am introducing the Stop Arming Terrorists Act today to prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used to support terrorists.

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