According to CNN, the US State Department's Chief Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel denied at a press conference that the lifting of the arms sales suspension was related to the US government's post-Gaza war and normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. But he admitted that "Saudi Arabia has always been a close strategic partner of the United States, and we look forward to strengthening this partnership."

A senior U.S. State Department official said the State Department will lift a ban on the transfer of air-to-ground weapons to Saudi Arabia. "We will consider new transfers on a case-by-case basis consistent with our conventional arms transfer policy," the official said.

According to previous reports, US President Biden stopped selling offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia on the grounds of the Yemeni civil war shortly after taking office in 2021. In 2022, the two sides of the Yemen conflict agreed to a ceasefire through UN mediation, and the US government subsequently began to evaluate the relevant decision.

According to Reuters, under US law, major international arms deals must be reviewed by members of Congress before they are finalized. Democratic and Republican lawmakers have been questioning the practice of providing offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia in recent years, citing the harm caused to civilians by its military operations in Yemen and a series of human rights issues.

U.S. government officials said that since Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthi armed forces reached a ceasefire agreement under the leadership of the United Nations in 2022, Saudi Arabia has not launched any air strikes on Yemen, and Yemen's cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabia have basically stopped.