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The horrific assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and Trump’s refusal to permit the CIA Director to brief the Senate about the Saudi Crown Prince’s responsibility, so angered Senators that they took a first procedural step to pass the Yemen War Powers Resolution (S.J.Res.54), extricating the US from the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

For the past three years, the US supported this war by providing bombs, refueling planes, assisting with intelligence. Despite putting 14 million at risk of famine and causing hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, mass starvation, and the world’s worst cholera outbreak, Republican leadership prevented Congress from withdrawing this support.

This is your daily reminder that Greg Walden

is on the Republican leadership team.

The War Powers Resolution would suspend weapons sales and end US military involvement in Yemen—limiting Saudi capacity to kill defenseless civilians—and show Saudis their reprehensible human rights record won’t be tolerated.

While the new Congress must hold hearings on Khashoggi’s murder, we cannot wait months to pass the Resolution—during which time American weapons and assistance will add to the starvation and murder of millions of children and civilians.

There can be no Congressional backsliding. Congress must reclaim its war powers and end our unconstitutional complicity in the war in Yemen by immediately passing S.J.Res.54/H.Con.Res.138—either alone or during the continuing budget resolution.

Defund The Saudi War Machine!

Sanction Saudi Murderers!