Sen. Chris Murphy, center, said he and Sens. Mike Lee, right, and Bernie Sanders, left, will seek to bring up a resolution curtailing the U.S. role in Yemen next week. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Congress Senate set to challenge Trump on Yemen, again

A bipartisan effort to rein in U.S. support for the war in Yemen will come to the Senate floor as soon as next week, setting up President Donald Trump for a likely second veto fight in his presidency.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said he and Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will seek to bring up a resolution curtailing the U.S. role in Yemen next week and it is likely to pass again with bipartisan support. In an interview, Murphy acknowledged that the vote could slip to later in March if opponents don't agree to speed up the vote.


"You could get that done at the end of the week. I don't think the votes are going to change" from December, Murphy said. The resolution passed the Senate 56-41 last year, though the GOP House never took it up.

Once the Senate passes the resolution, it would proceed to the House for a vote before going to the president. Last month, House Republicans successfully amended the Democratic resolution to condemn antisemitism, an amendment that was ruled not "germane" to the underlying legislation. That prevented the resolution from being privileged to come up quickly on the Senate floor and evade a filibuster and its 60-vote requirement.

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Murphy said he was confident that the House has learned its lesson and will simply take up the Senate's effort and send it to Trump for a veto fight.

"The question is: Can the House resist that same motion to recommit? I think they can," he said.

The president is already vowing to veto a resolution of disapproval of his border emergency declaration, and a veto of the Yemen resolution would likely become the second veto fight of his presidency. Trump would likely win both veto override votes in Congress.