The administration of US President Joe Biden told Congress that it supports more than $ 23 billion in arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, including F-35 fighters, combat drones and other equipment.

Last December, nearly Democrats in the Senate voted to try to block the deal, citing President Donald Trump's hasty attempt to get it through and the UAE's human rights violations both domestically and across the region.

Biden put the deal on hold, ordering it to be renegotiated. Since then, the administration has not reported anything about this process.

In January, an official told the Wall Street Journal that UAE sales were not frozen for the duration of the audit, unlike the Trump administration's arms deals for Saudi Arabia.

However, many observers believed the deal was effectively on hold and that at some point the administration would offer a public explanation of how it would implement the agreement.

Legislators and Democratic activists who opposed the deal because of the UAE's aggressive activities in the Middle East wanted to make sure the Biden administration was serious about reviewing the deal, to the extent of a possible stake reduction.