By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian
The US government has not fully investigated its own role in perpetuating human rights abuses in Yemen, according to a congressional watchdog report that offered a damning assessment of both the Trump and Biden administrations’ commitment to tracking violations of humanitarian law.
A report by the Government Accountability Office, which examined US weapons sales to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, also raised serious doubts about one of Joe Biden’s first foreign policy as president, when he announced that his administration was ending US support for Saudi offensive operations in Yemen.
![A Yemeni boy lives with her children in a camp for displaced people in the city of Taiz, Yemen](https://progressivehub.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/shutterstock_2106858752-uai-258x145.png)
At the time, in February 2021, the move was seen as an attempt to show the world that the US would no longer be an unquestioning ally to its allies in the Gulf.
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