congressional approval. an emergency power to sell $8 billion worth of weapons in the case of the saudis so the saudis can ostensibly use those arms to bomb yemen in a war that so far has cost tens of thousands of lives and resulted in the worst cholera outbreak in modern times. to be clear, the humanitarian crisis in yemen is so ghastly and shocking to the conscience that both houses of congress voted for the first ever invocation of war powers to stop the saudi-led war in yemen. congress would never have approved this arms sale to mohammed bin salman whose employees hacked a man to death. why is it an emergency that we need to sell arms to saudis? it's not. it's just like the fake border emergency, a transparently