Several Democrats have just come out in opposition to President Joe Biden's decision to provide cluster bombs to Ukraine. 

Biden's decision was first reported by the New York Times. 

Per the outlet:

The United States agreed on Friday to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, the controversial and widely banned weapons that can often cause indiscriminate harm to civilians, especially children, long after the fighting ends.

Biden's decision was subsequently confirmed by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan. Sullivan said that, after much consternation, "Biden ultimately decided, in consultation with allies and partners and in consultation with members of Congress, to move forward on this strategy."

Dems respond

Now, Biden is facing criticism from members of his own Democratic Party. This includes Biden's chief Democratic 2024 rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy said:

Cluster bombs are munitions so horrific for civilians that more than a hundred nations have signed an international treaty banning them. Now the Biden administration is preparing to send them to Ukraine.

It was not just Kennedy, though.

Nearly 20 House Democrats signed on to a joint statement in which they condemned Biden's decision.

The statement, in part, reads:

The White House’s announcement runs counter to Congress’s restrictions on the transfer of these weapons and severely undermines our moral leadership. It underscores the work still ahead to press the U.S. to join the international community in banning the use of cluster munitions.

Biden responds

Biden, on Friday, participated in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, in which he defended his decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.

"It was a very difficult decision on my part," Biden said, adding, "And, by the way, I discussed this with our allies, I discussed this with our friends up on the Hill. The Ukrainians are running out of ammunition."

Biden went on to claim that the cluster bombs will only be sent during a "transition period," saying:

This is a war relating to munitions. And they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it. And so, what I finally did, I took the recommendation of the Defense Department to – not permanently – but to allow for this transition period, while we get more 155 weapons, these shells, for the Ukrainians.

Biden, during the interview, pointed out that the United States - unlike more than 100 other countries - has not signed on to the international agreement to ban cluster bombs.

Something worth noting is that, last year, then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that Russia using a cluster bomb in its war against Ukraine would "potentially be a war crime."