U.S. Sold Almost $42 Billion in Weapons to Foreign Governments in 2017





U.S. Sold Almost $42 Billion in Weapons to Foreign Governments in 2017: "The U.S. government sold $41.9 billion in weapons to foreign partners in 2017, the Pentagon announced Thursday. 

The total was a 25 percent increase over sales in 2016, but short of records set in 2015 and 2012. The announcement does not include a breakdown of who bought the weapons or what types of weapons were sold.

President Donald Trump has been pushing for more U.S. arms sales, tweeting in September that he would help Japan and South Korea buy more weapons. The administration has taken a hands-on approach to arms sales, with his son-in-law Jared Kushner personally calling the chief executive of the world's largest defense company, Lockheed Martin, to help build a package of $110 billion in sales to Saudi Arabia."



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