(Yahya Arhab/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)The Senate on Thursday fell short of the votes needed to override President Trump’s veto of legislation demanding an end of U.S. support for the Saudi-led military coalition operating in Yemen, a country plagued by more than four years of a devastating civil war. — voted with the Democrats on Thursday to override Trump’s veto in a 53-to-45 vote. But most Republican lawmakers objected to using Congress’s war powers to end what amounts to a support operation. And earlier this year, the administration issued sanctions against several Saudi officials in response to Khashoggi’s killing. As lawmakers were preparing to vote, senior defense officials reiterated the Pentagon’s opposition to moves constraining U.S. assistance to Saudi Arabia’s Yemen operation.

Source: Washington Post May 02, 2019 18:01 UTC