By December 2018, concern over Trump’s support for MBS’s Yemeni adventures boils over into a successful Senate vote to end U.S. involvement in the coalition’s campaign.104 The Republican House refuses to take up the legislation, but the bill will pass in bipartisan fashion in February 2019 once the Democrats take control of the lower chamber of Congress.105 In March 2019, the Senate again passes the bill with bipartisan support—establishing the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, and the systemic cruelties of the Saudis’ and Emiratis’ military campaign there, as one of the few issues in recent
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