The Senate’s vote this week to push the US military to withdraw from Yemen is historic for a number of reasons
It was a resounding defeat for the White House and Republican Senate leadership: by a 63-37 majority, the US Senate voted this week to advance legislation that would give President Trump 30 days to get the US military out of Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen, unless he could get congressional authorization for US military intervention. Which he almost certainly could not.
The vote on Wednesday was procedural, allowing the legislation spearheaded by Bernie Sanders, Mike Lee and Chris Murphy – to move toward a full Senate vote. But it is widely seen as a reliable indicator of what a Senate vote on the resolution itself would look like.
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