Senate votes to stop US military aid to Saudis in Yemen

By Susan Ferrechio

Published December 13, 2018 8:26pm ET

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Senate votes to stop US military aid to Saudis in Yemen — In this Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, photograph, an airman with the Royal Saudi Air Force walks away from a C-130 Hercules military cargo plane near Mukalla, Yemen, at an airport now serving as a military base for the United Arab Emirates. The port city of Mukalla, once held by al-Qaida, shows how fractious Yemen is and will remain even if the Saudi-led war in the country ends in an uneasy peace for the Arab world's poorest nation. | (Jon Gambrell/AP)

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to check the executive branch’s war powers authority by voting to end U.S. support of the Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen.

Senators voted 56-41 in favor of the resolution, which passed after lawmakers agreed to a series of amendments, including on by Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., to block the U.S. military from in-flight refueling of Saudi jets.

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