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🇦🇪 🇺🇸 The new Democratic Senate majority will soon decide whether to block US arms sales to the UAE, which sponsors the Rapid Support Forces' genocide and mass rape campaign in Sudan. The Emiratis have now hired someone close to the leader of that majority. Jennifer Poersch, a lobbyist at Guidepost Strategies, registered Oct. 30 to represent the UAE Embassy for $100,000 a month, Sludge found in federal foreign-agent filings. Her husband, J.B. Poersch, runs Senate Majority PAC, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's super PAC, which spent more than $400 million on this year's Senate races. Senate Majority PAC and its affiliates spent in eight Senate races during the 2026 elections: ➤ Ohio, $150 million: Sherrod Brown ➤ Iowa, $67 million: Josh Turek ➤ Michigan, $67 million: Abdul El-Sayed ➤ Maine, $65 million: Troy Jackson ➤ Texas, $40 million: James Talarico ➤ Kansas, $14 million: Adam Hamilton ➤ Mississippi, $2.2 million: Scott Colom ➤ South Carolina, $750,000: Annie Andrews Of these eight candidates, El-Sayed is the only who has publicly condemned the UAE’s role in Sudan. In an October interview with ABC News, he criticized U.S. dealings with the UAE, noting it was perpetrating genocide in Sudan.