US President Donald Trump’s massive $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia faces a bleak future in Congress as more lawmakers raise questions about the regime’s atrocities in Yemen.
Trump signed the multi-billion dollar deal with Saudis during his maiden overseas trip to Riyadh last week, boasting that it was going to make and save “billions of dollars and millions of jobs” in the US.
Besides fighter jets, warships and other weapons, the deal also included precision guided munitions (PGMs), the sale of which was halted last year by then US President Barack Obama over the Riyadh’s ongoing war against Yemen.
In a letter to the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Ted Lieu, a Democrat, and Ted Yoho, a Republican, asked their fellow lawmakers to reconsider the sale of PGMs under Trump’s arms deal.
They argued that the Obama administration decided to halt the sale “due to concerns over the widespread civilian casualties in…