In occasionally breaking with the Democratic Party, the Biden administration has reinstated multiple policies from former President Donald Trump’s presidency.
In response to the Houthis’s attack against international commercial shipping in the Red Sea, President Joe Biden declared the group to be a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist group” (SDGT) in January. Trump designated the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) during his time in office.
Shortly after Biden entered the White House, the Democratic president reserved the Trump-era designation in an effort to tackle the war in Yemen. The United Nations and aid groups said the designation would be dangerous for Yemeni civilians. Three years later, Biden reimposed one of the Trump-era designations following the attacks on ships in the Red Sea that the Houthis say are in defense of Gaza as the war against…
