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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
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