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Senator Todd Young pleads President Trump to press for aid to Yemen

Indiana’s junior US Senator is calling on President Donald Trump to press Saudi Arabia to allow aid into Yemen.

The United Nations is warning that the nation of Yemen, on the southern Arabian pennisula, is on the brink of famine. The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that Senator Todd Young is asking the President to lean on the Saudis to allow humanitarian access to the country.

The Republican is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and says Saudi Arabia has blocked aid groups from delivering equipment that would be used to offload desperately needed supplies to the Yemenis. Aid workers claim the Saudis have also defaulted on financial aid they had pledged. Young is concerned that struggling Yemeni civilians could radicalize and become sympathetic to jihadists.

The President has yet to comment publicly on the crisis in the troubled Middle Eastern country.

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Somethings up? July 21, 2017 at 9:26 am

So, we need to give-give-give to Yemen or they will become radicalized? Saudi Arabia doesn’t seem to care and it is their neighbor. This is like paying a criminal not to be a criminal. Isn’t that what welfare does? Isn’t working now and it never will. Obviously there is a hidden agenda here. We need all of our dollars to pay for Obama care because too many Americans don’t want to pay for it themselves.

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Oh come on, July 24, 2017 at 6:10 am

Yemen is in the middle of a civil war which Saudi is involved in.

This is akin to saying we should have allowed shipping into the South during our Civil War to help alleviate the suffering.

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