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The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to withdraw U.S. military support for the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition in Yemen, a historic vote that sends a strong rebuke to President Donald Trump's foreign policy one month after Democrats took control of the chamber.
The vote in the House Wednesday was 248 to 177, with 18 Republicans joining Democrats to pass the resolution. A Senate vote is expected in the coming weeks.
President Trump has not issued a veto since taking office more than two years ago, but that may soon change.
The House will move a step closer to a major confrontation with Trump by voting as soon as Wednesday on a resolution that would cut off U.S. military support to the Saudi-led coalition in neighboring Yemen.
The measure is expected to easily pass the chamber controlled by Democrats. After that, it will move to the GOP-led Senate, where is it also expected to have enough votes.
Khanna has sometimes been a source of tension within the House Democratic Caucus. Heendorsed incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley last year before backtracking and signaling support for Crowley's liberal challenger in the primary, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is now an ally of Khanna's in Congress. But his work on Yemen may also position him as a rare consensus builder within a progressive movement that has tried to pull Democrats to the left.
As the White House prepares to wage another fight with Congress to preserve its involvement in the Yemen war, opponents plan to use President Trump's criticisms of endless, pointless wars as either a lever or a cudgel.
WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives passed a war-powers resolution directing the removal of U.S. armed forces involved in the conflict in Yemen, putting pressure on the GOP-controlled Senate and raising the specter of a veto by President Trump.
The resolution states that Congress hasn't authorized military involvement in Yemen, where the U.S. is backing a Saudi-led coalition in a conflict against Iran-allied Houthi militants. A handful of Republicans joined Democrats in passing the resolution by a 248-177 vote, with one member voting present.
The House voted Wednesday 248-177 to end support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, setting up a duel with President Donald Trump over his administration's complicity in the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe. The war-weary Senate will now consider the resolution just two months after passing a nearly identical bill.
Congress inched closer to a major foreign-policy rebuke of President Donald Trump on Wednesday when the House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced a bill to cut off U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen's bloody civil war.
In a party-line vote, the panel's Democrats sent a War Powers resolution to the House floor, where it is likely to pass overwhelmingly in the coming days. A companion effort in the Senate will follow, but its prospects are less certain as Trump administration officials are ramping up efforts to discourage Republican defections.
Rep. Ro Khanna is at the nexus of old and new in the Democratic Party.
The second-term lawmaker from Silicon Valley served in the Commerce Department under President Obama, with establishment ties dating back to Obama's first run for the Illinois Senate in 1996.
He's also an insurgent progressive who unseated longtime Democratic Rep. Mike Honda in 2016 and was the only member of the House to back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in her stunning primary defeat of then-Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley.
Congress is poised to face off with President Trump for a second time over his administration's policy toward Saudi Arabia, as lawmaker groups in both chambers reintroduce resolutions to end U.S. involvement in the Yemen civil war.
Second-term U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who represents the Silicon Valley area of the West Coast state, Jan. 24 announced the committees and subcommittees he has been named to in the 116th Congress.
Khanna will serve on the Oversight and Reform, Armed Services, and Budget Committees.
He also joins the House Armed Services Subcommittees on Intelligence and Emerging Threats, and Strategic Forces, as well as the Oversight Subcommittees of Government Operations and Economic Policy.