President Joe Biden is facing pressure from vulnerable members of his own party to go after the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists after his administration slapped the group with a weak terrorist designation this week after removing the harshest designation from the group back in 2021.
The administration designated the Yemen-based terrorist group as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) group on Wednesday, stopping short of re-designating the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), which carries significantly harsher penalties than being designated as an SDGT.
Vulnerable Democrats who are up for re-election this year are now urging Biden to show more spine in dealing with the matter while virtually all Republicans have pushed Biden to do so for months.
“The Houthis are a terrorist proxy of Iran’s regime, and I’ve called for their designation as a terrorist…
