John,
This month, the State Department announced a weapons deal with Saudi Arabia valued at $650 million.
This sale would give Saudi Arabia 280 air-to-air missiles and 596 missile launchers.
There is no reason why we should be selling arms to Saudi Arabia—a brutal theocracy that oppresses its own people and has spent billions of dollars exporting its extreme ideology around the world while committing genocide in Yemen.
Represenative Ilhan Omar put it quite well saying, “We should never be selling human rights abusers weapons, but we certainly should not be doing so in the midst of a humanitarian crisis they are responsible for. Congress has the authority to stop these sales, and we must exercise that power.”
Ilhan is right and that’s why she has introduced a joint resolution to block the sale of these weapons from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia.
Will you stand with Ilhan Omar and DFA by demanding Congress pass this joint resolution and end weapons deals with Saudi Arabia and all human rights abusers?
We already know that the weapons we give to Saudi Arabia are used to commit war crimes against Yemeni civilians.
We should not be giving them even more weapons.
Saudi Arabia’s actions caused the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, the United States cannot continue to support a nation that has committed so many atrocities.
Demand that Congress pass Ilhan Omar’s joint resolution and end weapons deals with Saudi Arabia and all human rights abusers.
Thank you for taking action.
- Tre
Tre Graves
Digital Organizing Coordinator
Democracy for America
