Senate votes to block Trump’s $8 billion Saudi arms deal

​The Senate voted on Thursday to block the Trump administration’s $8 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia,​ but the numbers were not enough to overturn a veto by President Trump.

The Republican-led Senate filed 22 resolutions — one for each of the contracts — and grouped them into three votes.

Two of them passed with 53 votes, with support from GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham.

One passed by 51 votes.

Two-thirds majorities in the House and Senate are required to overturn a veto.

​The vote now moves into the Democrat-controlled House.

​Trump said he would veto the measures because calling off the sales “would send a message that the United States is abandoning its partners and allies at the very moment when threats to them are increasing.”

The vote came amid rising tensions between the US and Iran, and a United Nations report that found “credible evidence” that Saudi Arabia was behind the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October.

With Post wires

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