US President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to resort to a veto of a Congress decision to cease American support to the coalition to restore legitimacy in Yemen. The administration said the resolution was inappropriate because US forces had provided aircraft refueling and other support in the Yemen conflict, not combat troops. It also said the measure would harm relationships in the region and hurt the US ability to prevent the spread of violent extremism. The House passed the measure, 248-177. It now goes to the Senate, where it also has support. However, the resolution would struggle to garner the two-thirds majorities needed in both the House and Senate to overcome a Trump veto. Republicans still hold a slim majority in the Senate. In Yemen, the Iran-backed Houthi militias, and in a sign of their defiance of peace efforts, resumed the shelling of the Red Sea Mills that store grain vital to the people. The attack took place as head of the UN ceasefire monitoring team Michael Lollesgaard was in Sanaa for negotiations with the Houthis to respect the Sweden agreement. The deal, reached between the legitimate government and Houthis in Stockholm in December, calls for the militias’ withdrawal from Hodeidah and its three ports. In a sign of their complete disregard to the truce and efforts for peace, the Houthis have been blocking access to the mills for five months. The silos have enough grain to feed some 3.7 million people. The shelling was accompanied by Houthi reinforcements on the ground in Hodeidah, in another sign of their disregard of the Sweden deal. Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned Wednesday that the window of opportunity to turn the truce agreement into a plan for peace was shortening. “We now have a shortening window of opportunity to turn the ceasefire into a durable path to peace,” Hunt said in a statement ahead of a meeting with the US, UAE and Saudi foreign ministers. “Real progress has been made to reach a political solution but there are also real issues of trust between the two sides which mean the agreement in Stockholm has not been fully implemented.”