White House invokes emergency provision to sidestep Congress and enable billions of dollars in weapons sales to Mideast allies such as Saudi Arabia
Yemenis gathered at the site of a Saudi-led coalition air strike in August 2018. Photo: stringer/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images By Dion Nissenbaum May 24, 2019 2:18 p.m.
People familiar with the details said the sale represents a broad package of 22 separate deals worth about $8 billion. Lawmakers opposed to the arms sales denounced the decision as another effort by the White House to undermine congressional power. Rep. Eliot Engel , chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called the decision “another slap in Congress’s face.”
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