US military ties with Saudi Arabia, under harsh scrutiny after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, aren’t all they’re trumped up to be. That’s according to a new report from the Center for International Policy (CIP), an anti-war Washington think tank.

Why it matters: US President Donald Trump has said he’s not willing to let Khashoggi’s death get in the way of a touted $110 billion arms deal with Riyadh inked during a trip to Saudi Arabia in May 2017.

But the CIP report concludes that the United States has only implemented $14.5 billion worth of arms deals with Saudi Arabia since Trump took office. And the relationship faces even more headwinds as Congress debates bipartisan legislation to suspend bomb sales to Saudi Arabia over mounting civilian casualties in the Yemen war.

It’s the economy, stupid: Trump’s main argument for keeping US arms deals to Saudi Arabia intact is to protect up to one million American jobs — a number the president appeared to inflate over the course of the Khashoggi probe. But CIP estimates that Riyadh’s arms purchases have only supported 20,000 to 40,000 US jobs over the past decade, a small fraction of what the White House has claimed.