{"id":399625,"date":"2019-03-15T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-to-end-complicity-in-yemen-war\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:37:18","slug":"senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-to-end-complicity-in-yemen-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-to-end-complicity-in-yemen-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes War Powers Resolution to End Complicity in Yemen War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In a major step toward ending U.S. complicity in the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis, the Senate on Wednesday passed a War Powers resolution to cut off American military support for the Saudi-led coalition\u2019s assault on Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The final vote count was 54-46.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is historic. For the first time in 45 years, Congress is one step closer to withdrawing U.S. forces from an unauthorized war,\u201d Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the lead sponsor of the resolution,<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1105958163675836416\">declared<\/a><span> <\/span>following the vote. \u201cWe must end the war in Yemen.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high  inline-callout-container\" id=\"truth-1426772992\">\n<div class=\"truth-post-content-high\" id=\"truth-844793660\">\n<aside class=\" inline-callout inline-callout--subscribe inline-callout--dark\" id=\"truth-1972733892\">\n<h2>Stay in the loop<\/h2>\n<p>Never miss the news and analysis you care about.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) also played key roles in advocating for and passing the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Gould, legislative director for Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, applauded the grassroots activists who have been working tirelessly to end America\u2019s disastrous role in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate has now taken a decisive step in ending the American facilitation of the Yemen war and the world\u2019s largest humanitarian crises,\u201d Gould said. \u201cMillions of grassroots activists, who helped make this vote a reality, want their lawmakers to end this unconscionable war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Passage of the<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/senate-joint-resolution\/7\">resolution<\/a><span> <\/span>comes as the Saudis continue to launch deadly airstrikes in Yemen with U.S. backing, worsening a crisis that has already resulted in mass suffering and<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/11\/21\/entirely-preventable-deaths-85000-yemeni-children-part-what-trump-has-embraced\">tens of thousands of deaths<\/a>. Earlier this week,<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/03\/1034491\">dozens of civilians<\/a>\u2014including women and young children\u2014were killed by Saudi airstrikes in Yemen\u2019s Kushar district.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United Nations,<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/21\/world\/middleeast\/yemen-famine-children.html\">14 million Yemenis<\/a><span> <\/span>could soon be on the brink of starvation if the bombing continues. Save the Children, a London-based human rights organization,<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/11\/21\/entirely-preventable-deaths-85000-yemeni-children-part-what-trump-has-embraced\">estimated in a report last November<\/a><span> <\/span>that 85,000 Yemenis under the age of five have starved to death since the Saudi-led coalition began bombing the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We won! &#x1f389; The Senate just voted to end U.S. support for the brutal Saudi-led war in Yemen! We&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-to-end-complicity-in-yemen-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major step toward ending U.S. complicity in the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis, the Senate on Wednesday passed a War Powers resolution to cut off American military support for the Saudi-led coalition\u2019s assault on Yemen. The final vote count was 54-46. \u201cThis is historic. For the first time in 45 years, Congress is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}