Calling the president ‘ham-handed’ in his management of foreign policy, Democrats see the Yemen war as the latest opportunity to challenge his unorthodox approach to the world.
By Karoun Demirjian Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on national security Email Bio Follow March 23 at 8:27 AM Congress is poised to pass its first war powers resolution ordering an end to U.S. involvement in hostilities overseas, rebuking President Trump’s embrace of Saudi Arabia and handing Democrats what they consider a vital component of their strategy for challenging him in 2020.
A Yemeni boy and his sister push a wheelbarrow with empty water canisters in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday. The United States has provided Saudi-led forces with logistical support and intelligence since 2015, aid aimed at beating back the rise of Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen’s civil war. Critics say the campaign has targeted civilians and choked off desperately needed humanitarian supplies, leaving more than 20 million Yemenis at risk of starvation.
The next month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren delivered a foreign policy speech at American University in which she said that Trump “refused to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia in part because he is more interested in appeasing U.S. defense contractors than holding the Saudis accountable.” “It puts on display what so many Americans across the country really detest about the Trump administration: It’s rejection of American values, it’s putting the interest of an autocratic kingdom ahead of our own,” said Ned Price, a spokesman for National Security Action, a group of former Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign officials who have offered foreign policy advice to 2020 candidates.
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