Bid to Stop Part of U.S.-Saudi Arabia Arms Sale Fails in Senate
- Measure aimed to block about $500 million of $110 billion deal
- GOP senator Paul, three Democrats co-sponsored resolution
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The Senate defeated an effort to bar part of President Donald Trump’s highly touted arms deal with Saudi Arabia just weeks after the president visited the kingdom.
The resolution, blocked Tuesday on a 47-53 vote, would have barred about $500 million of the deal’s $110 billion in sales, issuing a rebuke of the president’s embrace of Saudi Arabia and its involvement in Yemen’s civil war. The measure was sponsored by Republican Rand Paul and three Senate Democrats.