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The Senate voted to block weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, a bipartisan rebuke

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The Senate voted to block weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, a bipartisan rebuke of President Trump that he’s likely to sidestep with a veto.
Thursday, June 20, 2019 12:10 PM EST

In the first of a series of three back-to-back votes, Republicans joined Democrats to register their growing anger with the administration’s use of emergency power to cut lawmakers out of national security decisions, as well as the White House’s unflagging support for the Saudis despite congressional pressure to punish Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after the killing last October of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/us/politics/saudi-arms-sales.html




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