Inspired by Jamal Khashoggi's killing, lawmakers renew fight to defy Trump and end US support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen

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• A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday renewed efforts to end US support for Saudi Arabia in the Yemen conflict. 
• Several Democratic lawmakers have been pushing for a resolution on this for some time, but struggled to gain support largely until the brutal killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 
• Khashoggi was killed by members of the Saudi government in October, sparking global outrage. 
• The Trump administration's apparent unwillingness to punish the Saudis over Khashoggi's killing drove many in Congress to embrace legislative actions against the kingdom.

A group of bipartisan lawmakers on Wednesday renewed a fight to restrict President Donald Trump's war powers related to US involvement in the Yemen conflict. 

The Senate in late 2018 voted in favor of a resolution to end US support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen, but House Republicans blocked any deliberation on the matter while they still had a majority. At the time, the lawmakers leading the charge for the resolution vowed to come back to the issue in 2019 once Democrats took over the House. 

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