House Democrats on Friday tabled resolutions opposing the Trump administration’s sale of millions of dollars of precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia.
Rep. Gregory Meeks
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“There is no justification for the Trump administration’s decision to rush into the sale of thousands of bombs in Saudi Arabia, especially after the false” emergency “sale of 60,000 rounds of ammunition a year. past, “Meeks said in a statement, referring to 2019” emergency “arms sales to Saudis that Democrats allege evade congressional oversight.
“Yemen has already been described by the UN as the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world, and this crisis is exacerbated when weapons sold by the United States are used recklessly, costing the lives of civilians, ”he added. the commitment of the administration to carry out a thorough review of the policy ”.
Resolutions of disapproval were sponsored by Representatives Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), Ted Deutch
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The Trump administration recently approved a $ 290 million sale in Riyadh for 3,000 GBU-39 ammunition manufactured by Boeing Small Diameter I (SDB I) and related equipment. The approval followed another green light for Raytheon to directly sell Saudi Arabia 7,500 of its “smart” air-to-ground Paveway bombs worth an estimated $ 478 million.
The government’s December 29 notice of the $ 290 million sale initiated a 30-day countdown during which lawmakers can block the sale if they wish, setting the deadline in the first days of the next administration of Biden. President-elect Joe Biden
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Arms sales in Saudi Arabia, in particular, have been a point of contention between the White House and lawmakers on both sides who have been increasingly vocal in their opposition to arming Riyadh.
Thousands of civilians have been killed in the Yemeni civil war, which is largely waged by Saudi Arabia and its representative forces against Houthi rebels, and lawmakers remain unhappy with the assassination of US journalist Jamal Khashoggi, sanctioned by Saudi, in 2018 in Turkey.
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