When the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a $1.5 trillion budget for the Department of War this week, the bill included a controversial provision that would permanently integrate US and Israeli military tech advancements in a way that would - as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it - turn Israel from a foreign aid recipient to a full-scale partner.
Future presidents would not be able to simply withdraw from such a project.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is must-pass legislation, as it is needed to fund all of the Pentagon's operations in the year to come.
But with the US-Israeli war on Iran resuming with ferocity, and the deaths of 18 US soldiers so far - among more than 400 wounded - the bill is stalled in the Senate.
While it's par for the course for lawmakers in both parties to push back against some NDAA elements, this year, one particular section has attracted attention: a framework for expanding US-Israel military ties by entrenching Israeli technology within the US defence supply chain in a way that would shield it from the annual budgeting process in Congress.
