GOP senators urge Trump to suspend Saudi nuclear deal after killing of journalist

Published October 31, 2018 3:01pm ET



Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., led a group of Republicans on Wednesday in urging President Trump to suspend all negotiations to build a nuclear power plant in Saudi Arabia as a response to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

“The ongoing revelations about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as well as certain Saudi actions related to Yemen and Lebanon, have raised further serious concerns about the transparency, accountability, and judgment of current decisionmakers in Saudi Arabia,” Rubio and four other senators wrote in a letter to Trump.

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