in december 2018, sanders supported a bill with senators chris murphy and mike lee to use the 1973 war powers resolution to end u.s. support for the saudi-led military intervention in yemen. at first, the senate did not supported it, but after the assassination of jamal khashoggi in october 2018 the bill had bipartisan co-sponsors and the senate passed the bill by a vote of 56–41 on december 13.