The Donald Trump administration is sending more than $90 million worth of military equipment to help the Lebanese army protect its borders, the latest sign that the United States is sticking by Beirut despite Hezbollah’s growing influence.

The Pentagon notified Congress on April 25 that it would be providing the Lebanese Armed Forces with 7-ton and 2.5-ton trucks as well as US Army Humvees mounted with .50-caliber machine guns, according to documents reviewed by Al-Monitor. The aid package draws from the Pentagon’s $1.4 billion global train-and-equip fund.

The notification was made just a week before the Iran-backed Shiite militia and its allies won more than half the seats in Lebanon’s May 6 parliamentary elections. Despite the Trump administration’s strident rhetoric on Iran and concerns about Hezbollah’s influence on Lebanese state institutions, the US Defense Department remains “committed to supporting Lebanon's sovereignty, stability, security and its state institutions,” Pentagon spokeswoman Rebecca Rebarich told Al-Monitor.

The assistance is aimed at helping the Lebanese Armed Forces deter conventional attacks, reduce malign influence and defeat the Islamic State and a host of Sunni terrorist groups that flow through Lebanon’s border with Syria. US Central Command previously used the fund to outfit the Lebanese Armed Forces with six American-made light attack helicopters and a Scan Eagle surveillance drone last year, totaling $110 million.