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Congress invokes powers to challenge Trump on war in Yemen
By SUSANNAH GEORGE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Re-
jecting a plank of President
Donald Trump’s foreign
policy, the House on Thurs-
day invoked never-before-
used powers to demand
that his administration with-
draw support from the Sau-
di-led war in Yemen . The
Senate passed the same
resolution in March with bi-
partisan support.
Trump is expected to issue
a veto of the measure , his
second as president, and
Congress does not have
the votes to override him.
But the action was none-
theless a milestone for law-
makers, who have shown
a renewed willingness to
assert their war-making
powers after letting them
atrophy for decades un-
der presidents from both
parties. “The president will From left, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., and House Rules Committee Chair James
have to face the reality McGovern, D-Mass., speak to reporters after the House voted to end American involvement in the Yemen war, rebuffing the Trump
that Congress is no longer administration’s support for the Saudi-led military campaign, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 4, 2019, though President
going to ignore its consti- Trump is expected to veto it.
tutional obligations when Associated Press
it comes to foreign policy,” Yemen was plunged into country’s internationally that Saudi Arabia said was the years that followed,
said Democratic Rep. Eliot a civil war in September recognized government. aimed at curbing Iranian Iran’s role in the conflict has
Engel of New York, chair- 2014, when rebels known The Saudi-led coalition influence. At the time, the grown.
man of the House Foreign as Houthis swept into the began fighting the rebels Houthis were allied with
Affairs Committee. capital and overthrew the months later in a campaign forces backed by Iran; in Continued on Page 2