House Democrats Wednesday introduced a series of measures tackling the Donald Trump administration’s invocation of emergency powers to transfer arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, supplementing similar bipartisan efforts in the Senate.
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., introduced a joint resolution intended to block 22 separate transfers to the Gulf worth $8.1 billion that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo approved last month without the customary congressional notification period by citing an emergency threat posed by Iran and its support for Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
