Senate Advances Resolution to Restrict Trump’s Military Actions in Venezuela
The next steps likely happen next week.
The Senate voted 52-47 to bring a resolution to the Senate floor that would require President Donald Trump to get Congressional approval before using military action in Venezuela.
Republicans Sens. Susan Collins (ME), Josh Hawley (MO), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Rand Paul (KY), and Todd Young (IN) voted with all 47 Democrats.
I must stress the vote is procedural.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) sponsored the War Powers Resolution last month.
I guess the Democrats pushed the vote since President Donald Trump’s administration captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro!
“Instead of responding to Americans’ concerns about the affordability crisis, President Trump started a war with Venezuela that is profoundly disrespectful to U.S. troops, deeply unpopular, suspiciously secretive, and likely corrupt. How is that ‘America First?’,” claimed Kaine. “Trump’s war is also clearly illegal because this military action was ordered without the congressional authorization the Constitution requires. To my Senate colleagues: enough is enough. You were sent here to have courage and to stand up for your constituents. That means no war without a debate and vote in Congress.”
ACKSHUALLY, no he has not. Didn’t President Joe Biden place a bounty on Maduro’s head? Yes, he did.
That doesn’t matter, though, because Biden is a Democrat.
Look, I know most of you guys don’t like Paul. I do for the most part because he’s consistent, especially regarding war.
“Current congressional leaders squirm and would like to shift the burden of initiating war to the President,” Paul explained. “Less than courageous members of Congress fall all over themselves to avoid taking responsibility, to avoid the momentous vote of declaring war. But make no mistake, bombing another nation’s capital and removing their leader is an act of war plain and simple. No provision in the Constitution provides such power to the presidency.”
He’s not wrong. It applies to both parties.
Kaine, Paul, and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced a resolution in October.
Again, I’m sure this one brought on other Republicans because of the Maduro capture.
So what happens next?
- Motion to proceed (simple majority)
- 10 hours of debate
- Vote-a-rama
- Passage (simple majority)
IMPORTANT: Next procedural steps for war powers in the Senate includes a vote-a-rama (This was just a vote to discharge from cmte)
—Motion to proceed (simple majority)
—10 hrs of debate
—Fully amendable (unlimited but must be germane) AKA vote-a-rama
—Simple majority for passage https://t.co/UEvTceZgRa— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) January 8, 2026
The vote will likely happen next week.
But will it go anywhere if it passes the Senate? We all know how this works!
The House needs to approve it.
Trump needs to sign it.
Therefore, I doubt it unlikely becomes law.
It’s horrible that we even need war powers resolutions. Trump is the Commander-in-Chief, meaning he directs forces once Congress approves military action.
The military should not be deployed without Congressional approval.
Therefore, if you want to be taken seriously by rational people, you wouldn’t make this resolution only about Venezuela. How about a War Powers resolution that covers all military action?
Oh, wait. We have that. It’s called the Constitution.
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The last time the US declared war was in 1942. I’m so glad we haven’t been involved in any wars since. Kudos to the congress for standing so firm against war (rolls eyes), As usual congress is a week late and a 100B short, So brave,
That’s not true. Congress has declared war several times since then. It’s become fashionable to use the term “Authorization for the use of military force”, I suppose because it sounds more modern or something, but it makes no difference; an AUMF is a declaration of war. There are no magic words, no requirement for Congress to say the magic formula “we declare war”.
Besides, since Truman, they should have been saying, “We declare Defense!”
Boy it’s awfully lucky there is nothing else happening in America that requires the Senates attention 🙄
btw affordability “Crisis” just (continues) play into the hands of
exactly what mamdami wants…gov control over housing which is what gives people absolute autonomy which is why I hated that trump even addressed that in a pro mamdami way
its not a crisis
its a capitalist construct that has the typical elements of supply and demand
also notice in the lefts attacks they always mention ( in vile tones/undertones) how its the boomers fault for this
again,, we are allowing the left to control a narrative they shouldnt even have any power over…but here it is again
a non lefty giving them that power by siding with them just in different wording
correction:
obviously its not the gov control that gives people the power
it gives the gov that power over that autonomy that americans should enjoy
Democrats still run Congress. The GOP doesn’t want to win.
the gop found out a long time ago
it was best to be the wife…power but when the going got tough..bail out and let the husband take over
which is ironic since the left has a female agenda for america but to ruled with the ruthlessness normally associate with the male but in fact
its the females who prove to be more ruthless
see abortion for any arguments regarding that last statement
Did they realize they’re the ones who will be responsible if they don’t act appropriately and the US people are grievously harmed?
Probably not.
There is already the War Powers Act. It does not require advance notice to Congress. The War Powers Act is of dubious constitutionality. No US President since it became law has accepted it as binding even while conforming to it. Then why has neither the executive branch or the legislative branch taken the matter to SCOTUS? Probably because each side is afraid of losing there.
Neither side has ever had an opportunity to take it to SCOTUS. There’s never been a case or controversy involving it.
Besides, SCOTUS would just say it’s not justiciable.
Prepare accordingly.
meanwhile obama had american(s?) assassinated overseas and his lawyers drew up some phony baloney justifications on why it was legal
bookings:
The legality of the U.S. government assassinating American citizens overseas, such as Anwar al-Awlaki, hinges on the assertion that the individual poses an imminent threat and that capture is not feasible, as outlined by Attorney General Eric Holder. This practice raises significant constitutional and legal debates regarding due process and the application of both domestic and international law.
And, in addition to the assassinations that you had referenced, the sainted narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama, along with his equally vile and incompetent Secretary of State, crone Clinton, deposed Mubarak, in Egypts, and, Qaddafi, in Libya, creating a predictable power vacuum which enabled the rise of the ISIS Muslim terrorist thugs and their sadistic killings and atrocities.
What was Congress’s (and, the Dhimmi-crats, at large) reaction to all of this? Histrionics? Outrage? Sermonizing?
Nope. Just crickets. Any presidential action undertaken by a Dhimmi-crat president is always deemed to be lawful and above board.
it reminds of that snake…robert gibbs,,obamas disinformation chief and all his lies to stop any attempts to show out obamas marxism
once proclaiming that a child who died at the hands of obamas drone strikes
had it coming b/c his dad ( the above mentioned awlaki,,should have been a better father
and
gibbs saying that obama cant be muslim via his father b/c he only met his dad once
yet obama knew allll about his dads dreams
enough to be given laundry money via book deals
Gibbs, and, the vile Ben Rhodes — two revolting snakes and evil birds of a feather.
Rhodes is the dope who penned Obama’s brazenly dishonest, whitewashing, halcyon, propagandistic bit of historical revisionism, for his Cairo speech at that Islamic university, in which Obama farcically and contemptibly claimed that the Cordoba caliphate was an alleged beacon of multifaith religious tolerance and magnanimity, instead of the usual oppressive Islamic regime, in which Jews and Christians were oppressed and treated as second-class citizens.
Awlaki’s kid was no different than any civilian who is present in a legitimate military target and is killed in an airstrike. When we bomb enemy military bases there are always civilians there, who become collateral damage, and that has never been considered a problem.
No, 0bama couldn’t possibly be a Moslem just because his father was one (which, as a communist, he wasn’t). It doesn’t work like that. He did only meet his father once after the age of two, so it’s not possible that he was influenced by his father’s beliefs. If he were a Moslem (which he is not and has never been) it could only be through the influence of other people, not his father.
And no, he did not claim to know his father’s dreams. His book, which is highly fictionalized, is titled “Dreams From My Father”, which clearly refers to his own dreams, based on what his mother and grandparents told him about his absent father.
That’s all utter bulldust. Killing an enemy soldier in war is not “assassination”. It doesn’t require any assertion that the individual poses an imminent threat or that capture is not feasible. The laws of war allow killing any enemy where he stands, or lies, so long as he is not hors de combat. It’s perfectly fine to bomb an enemy barracks and kill hundreds of soldiers while they’re sleeping. It’s perfectly fine to kill the enemy’s non-combat troops (other than medics). And it doesn’t make the slightest difference what passport(s) an enemy soldier holds.
I assume by “bookings:” you mean the Brookings Institute. It is, as usual, full of excrement.
Collins and Murkowski, the two crone-twits, voting with the Dhimmi-crats (plus, Rand Paul), don’t surprise me, in their actions, but Josh Hawley joining this crew, does.
Nothing like ignoring the law and Constitution because Orange man bad. FFS. They are all worthless.
Rand lost me at Paul. Chaos is no way to run a country.
This will not pass. If it makes it to the president’s desk, he would most certainly veto it. In order for it to become law the resolution would need a two-thirds majority in both chambers. This threshold will not be met under any circumstances during Trump’s presidency short of going to a parallel universe for extra votes.
I was hoping the parallel universe was better than this one.
This would be a monumental mistake. If a nation takes hostile aggression towards the US, we migth be unable to respond until Congress has a chance to debate and pass an official war resolution.
It sounds like some Senators want something from Trump and are trying to scare him back.
No action taken until the southern border invaders reach the Mason/Dixon line.
The GOP never misses an opportunity to fail.
What war are these people talking about?
There is no war.
The entire thing lasted what? 88 minutes with three hours to get Maduro to a completely secure place?
These idiots are acting like the troops have landed and beachheads are being established.
There is no war.
This was a Law enforcement action, an arrest of an indicted person supported (heavily) by DoD. Pretty sure that doesn’t require Congressional approval/permission. If the Senate were serious instead of virtue signaling they’d have mustered a veto proof majority.
This is true.
Also true, but no provision denies him such power either. Unlike Congress, whose powers are enumerated, the president is not limited to a list of strictly enumerated powers. I wouldn’t go so far as to say he can do absolutely anything he wants so long as nothing in the constitution or in any statute says he can’t (though that is exactly what many presidents have held) but he certainly has a lot more flexibility than Congress does. And a limited military strike like this seems well within that flexibility.
That’s not in the constitution.
But it doesn’t say that.
“President Trump started a war with Venezuela that is… deeply unpopular”
What? Talk louder, no one outside your bubble can hear you.