Update: After Sanders Urges Trump to Sign Resolution on Yemen War, He Vetoes It

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Update: After Sanders Urges Trump to Sign Resolution on Yemen War, He Vetoes It
 

(Update: President Trump on Tuesday vetoed a resolution requiring him to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, calling it “an unnecessary,, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future.”  Judging from the margin of votes for the resolution – 54-46 in the Senate, 247-175 in the House – supporters will be short of the two-thirds majority required in both chambers to override the veto, the second of Trump’s presidency.)

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday night the U.S. should “get out of the Saudi-led war in Yemen,” adding that President Trump could do something “extraordinary” by signing a resolution to do just that.

At his Fox News town hall in Pennsylvania, a Syrian-American audience member asked the 2020 presidential hopeful whether he agreed that the U.S. should “stay out of Syria, Venezuela and other countries that have their own personal issues,” or whether as president he would be “another cog in the war machine.”

Sanders introduced himself as someone who didn’t just oppose the war in Iraq but led the opposition to it.

The independent senator from Vermont then recalled leading a recent effort on Capitol Hill, together with Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, requiring the U.S. to end military support to the Saudi-led military campaign against the Shi’ite Houthi rebels in Yemen.
 
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