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Just read the law. I'm not sure what it means for Sanders to invoke the act. The way I read it, it should have automatically applied. Congress would likely have to sue the Biden administration to force them to comply.
That said there's a get out of jail clause. Basically, Biden simply needs to write a letter with his excuse for ignoring war crimes. it'll go "something something Oct 7 gives Israel the right to genocide".
And that's it, aid flows freely after that.
Still, at least Bernie is raising this as an issue.
You may be right, but I think he likely intends it as one step in a larger process. Maybe there will be subsequent steps, maybe not, but as you said it at least takes some kind of action to bring attention to the issue, to help deal with the paralysis in Congress right now.
Also, I thought the opposite: that if that detailed report is not given, all funding for it automatically halts after 30 days? I'm sure the devil is in the details - particularly whether whatever Biden sends is deemed "acceptable" to Congress that is receiving it? - but anyway likely Bernie means to accomplish something with this or else he would not have bothered.
It'll detail the steps being taken by the Biden Administration to try and contain the Human Rights Abuses.