A report on Rand Paul and Saudi Arabia–United States relations

U.S. President Donald Trump with the King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh, May 2017.

Paul speaking at a Tea Party rally in Hawesville, Kentucky, on November 21, 2009.

King Ibn Saud converses with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on board the USS Quincy, after the Yalta Conference in 1945.

Paul greeting supporters at Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 1, 2010.

President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon with their host, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, at the Mayflower Hotel in 1957

Paul being sworn in as a senator by Vice President Joe Biden, along with his family, in the Old Senate Chamber in the U.S. Capitol, January 2011.

King Saud and John Kennedy meet at the king's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida in 1962

Paul campaigning with his father, Ron Paul, for his 2012 presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, on August 10, 2011.

King Fahd with U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Ivana and Donald Trump in 1985. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia supplied money and arms to the anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan.

Paul speaking during filibuster on the Senate floor on March 6, 2013.

U.S. President George W. Bush and Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in Crawford, Texas, April 25, 2002

Paul at the 2019 Turning Point USA Winter Gala at Mar-a-Lago.

Former Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in the White House.

Paul speaking at a Turning Point USA event in 2020

Prince Mohammad bin Salman with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, D.C., June 13, 2016

Paul speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 14, 2013.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his advisor Ahmad Asiri (blamed for Khashoggi's death) meeting U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, July 2016

Paul speaking at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, October 2015.

Protesters against the U.S.-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen were led away handcuffed by New York police outside the U.S. mission to the UN on December 11, 2017

Paul being interviewed by Jerry Doyle at Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) 2011 in Reno, Nevada, September 16, 2011.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Saudi Prince Khalid bin Salman, July 2021

Paul speaking with former U.S. Congressman Allen West.

Visa page from Saeed al-Ghamdi's Kingdom of Saudi Arabia passport recovered from the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site

15 out of 19 September 11 terrorists were Saudi Arabia nationals

Paul with his family on the Capitol steps.

Protest against U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, March 2018

Paul and his father Ron Paul at an event hosted in their honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C.

Jamal Khashoggi (left) at a 2018 Project on Middle East Democracy forum in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, August 25, 2016

U.S. Navy has actively participated in the Saudi-led naval blockade of Yemen.

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with King Salman in Riyadh, January 2015

U.S. President Donald Trump, King Salman, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, May 2017

Protest against the war in Yemen in New York City on August 14, 2020

Rand Paul introduced a bill to try to block the plan calling it a "travesty".

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In April 2018, he again criticized the U.S.-Saudi Arabia alliance, highlighting that "Saudi Arabia has funded radical madrassas, teaching hatred of America throughout the world, and that Saudi Arabia also supplied arms to ISIS in the Syrian civil war."

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Code Pink protesting senators supporting Saudi arms deal, December 2017

2017 United States–Saudi Arabia arms deal

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On May 20, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud signed a series of letters of intent for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to purchase arms from the United States totaling US$110 billion immediately, and $350 billion over 10 years.

The transfer was widely seen as a counterbalance against the influence of Iran in the region and a "significant" and "historic" expansion of United States relations with Saudi Arabia.

Rand Paul introduced a bill to try to block the plan calling it a "travesty".