Donald Trump Froze Badly Needed Aid To Yemen. Joe Biden Can Restore It.

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden took a big step toward resolving the world’s worst humanitarian crisis earlier this month by ending U.S. support for a Saudi-led coalition that is pummeling Yemen. The message, shared with HuffPost before its release, praises the president’s “critical Yemen policy resets” but notes that, given the extent of Yemen’s collapse, “millions more are needed, in particular, for emergency stocks of personal protective equipment, ventilators, ICU beds, and other vital supplies.” “The United States, through USAID, is one of the few countries that can mobilize the money and resources to procure and distribute them,” continues the message, which was organized by the Friends Committee on National Legislation and signed by dozens of advocacy groups. Citing interference in deliveries by authorities in northern Yemen, then-President Donald Trump suspended most U.S. aid to the region in March 2020, days before the country reported its first case of COVID-19. Hani Mohammed/AP Humanitarian groups slammed Trump’s move, saying the meddling was a problem but that slashing support would be deadly ― and skeptics of America’s role in the conflict noted that the policy had political overtones because the U.S. was helping the Saudi-led coalition fight the militia in control of the north, a group known as the Houthis.