A Republican senator who is a close ally of President-elect Donald Trump has falsely accused President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of being behind the British government’s decision to turn over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands — including the location of a key military base — to Mauritius despite the deal’s origins under the previous Conservative-led government.
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana used time for debate over a trio of Democratic-authored resolutions to cut off certain kinds of arms to Israel to rail against the agreement that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government reached with Mauritius over the status of the archipelago in October.
