{"id":697032,"date":"2026-01-15T06:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697032\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:07:11","slug":"us-senate-kills-resolution-that-would-have-limited-trump-action-in-venezuela-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/697032\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate kills resolution that would have limited Trump action in Venezuela | US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Senate has voted against a war powers resolution that would have prevented Donald Trump<\/a> from taking further military action against Venezuela without giving Congress advance notice.<\/p>\n

Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana, who had joined three other Republicans to advance the resolution alongside Democrats last week, flipped after they said they received assurances from the Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With Hawley and Young\u2019s votes, the Senate was split 50-50 on the resolution. JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Republican senators Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins cast their votes for the war powers resolution alongside Democrats.<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats forcefully condemned Republican opposition to the resolution, which aimed to check the president as he threatens further action in other countries including Greenland, Iran and Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake no mistake about it: this vote makes things more dangerous, not less,\u201d Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> said. \u201cIt emboldens Donald Trump to push further down this reckless path.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim Kaine, the Democratic senator from Virginia who has championed several war powers measures, said he was prepared to file \u201ca whole lot more\u201d to block Trump from carrying out military operations without congressional authorization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can run but they can\u2019t hide,\u201d he said, referring to Republicans, whose support would be needed to approve the resolutions.<\/p>\n

The president had put intense pressure on his fellow Republicans to vote down the measure that would have checked his ability to carry out further military attacks on Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump lashed out at the five Republican senators who joined with Democrats to advance the resolution last week. Yet even the possibility that the Republican-controlled Senate would defy Trump on such a high-profile vote revealed the growing alarm on Capitol Hill about the president\u2019s expanding foreign policy<\/a> ambitions.<\/p>\n

Democrats forced the vote after US troops captured the deposed Venezuelan president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, in a surprise nighttime raid earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Young, one of five Republicans who voted with Democrats last week, says he now sides with Trump.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Young said he \u201chas received assurances that there are no American troops in Venezuela\u201d after speaking with secretary of state Marco Rubio<\/a>, and that if Trump were to pursue \u201cmajor military operations\u201d, he would ask Congress \u201cin advance for an authorization of force\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hawley similarly told reporters that he had been persuaded after discussion with both Rubio and Trump that the resolution was no longer necessary.<\/p>\n

The defeat comes less than a week after the US Senate advanced a bipartisan war powers resolution to prevent Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela, after Trump authorized a pre-dawn raid to capture its leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, without giving Congress advance notice. The vote amounted to a rare rebuke of the president, and Trump responded by saying that the Republican senators who supported the resolution \u201cshould never be elected to office again\u201d.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s vote hinged on a procedural maneuver challenging the resolution\u2019s relevance based on the fact that no US troops were currently deployed in Venezuela. The motion allowed Young and Hawley to vote to kill the resolution without abandoning their initial objections to military action in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Paul, a libertarian long opposed to US military<\/a> intervention abroad, called it an \u201cabsurdity\u201d to argue Trump hadn\u2019t already taken actions of war in Venezuela. \u201cIf we don\u2019t know it\u2019s a war until after all the people die … wouldn\u2019t it then be a little late?\u201d he told reporters in advance of the vote.<\/p>\n

Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, said it was necessary for Congress to reassert its role and put a check on presidential authority that had \u201catrophied\u201d under recent administrations.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on social media, senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, accused Republicans of voting in favor of \u201cforever wars, and against the best interests of the American people\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cecilia Nowell contributed reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Senate has voted against a war powers resolution that would have prevented Donald Trump from taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-697032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115897620467554677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}