President Trump slashed U.S. aid to the country days before its first confirmed COVID-19 case.
Reps. Eliot Engel and Adam Smith , who chair powerful committees overseeing foreign policy in the House of Representatives, led aurging the Trump administration to change course. Administration officials have spoken with congressional staff about programs that might be allowed to continue receiving U.S. funding, but the exemptions they are describing are “very narrow,” a Democratic aide told HuffPost.
Now that the coronavirus can definitively be added to the long list of Yemen’s problems, aid workers are even more distressed about the consequences of U.S. policy there. One immediate way to give Yemenis a fighting chance would be to end the conflict between Saudi-backed forces and the Houthis. Riyadha two-week suspension in its campaign last week, and U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths is speeding up negotiations.
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