“The US government has obtained intelligence that Saudi Arabia has significantly escalated its ballistic missile program with the help of China, a development that threatens decades of US efforts to limit missile proliferation in the Middle East,” CNN reports.

“The Trump administration did not initially disclose its knowledge of this classified development to key members of Congress… infuriating Democrats who discovered it outside of regular US government channels and concluded it had been deliberately left out of a series of briefings where they say it should have been presented.”