Senate advances Yemen resolution in rebuke to Trump
The Senate issued a sharp rebuke Wednesday to President Trump, easily advancing a resolution that would end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemens civil war despite a White House effort to quash the bill.
The administration launched an eleventh-hour lobbying frenzy to try to head off momentum for the resolution, dispatching Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Capitol Hill in the morning and issuing a veto threat less than an hour before the vote started.
But lawmakers advanced the resolution, 63-37, even as the administration vowed to stand by Saudi Arabia following the outcry over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Theres been a lot of rhetoric thats come from the White House and from the State Department on this issue, said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. The rhetoric that Ive heard and the broadcasts that weve made around the world as to who we are have been way out of balance as it relates to American interests and American values.
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