Republicans Block Effort to Check Trump's Power in Venezuela

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G.O.P. leaders succeeded in pressuring fellow senators who initially supported the measure that would have limited President Trump’s military authority in Venezuela.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/trump-venezuela-war-powers-vote.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVA.VsPJ.4_Z4II5f0UFi&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Senate on Wednesday blocked a resolution that sought to force President Trump to seek congressional approval for any U.S. military action related to Venezuela.

Republican leaders were able to garner enough support for their procedural maneuver to kill the resolution after Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana flipped their position and joined the effort to stop it from coming up for a vote.

The shift brought about a 50-50 tie, which was broken late Wednesday in favor of Republican leadership by Vice President JD Vance, in his role as president of the Senate.

Mr. Hawley and Mr. Young were part of a group of five Republicans who last week joined all Democrats in supporting the measure aiming to curb the president’s war powers......

Democrats argued that the U.S. military remained involved, and they insisted that congressional oversight was required.

“There are U.S. military seizing Venezuelan oil every day. There’s U.S. military striking Venezuelans on boats in the water every day. We’re not occupying their country without the military,” Mr. Kaine said. “We just went in and deposed their government. We are controlling who governs the country. We are controlling when Venezuelans are entitled to have elections again. We’re controlling their chief economic asset. That’s all being done by the U.S. military.”

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1. Vance casts tie-breaking vote as GOP caves to Trump's pressure campaign on war powers

Arrgh

Vance casts tie-breaking vote as GOP caves to Trump's pressure campaign on war powers

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2026-01-14T23:59:43.000Z

https://www.rawstory.com/senate-republicans-2674895714/

Senate Republicans voted to kill a bill on Wednesday that would have limited President Donald Trump's war powers, according to a new report.

Trump had been pressuring Republicans to kill the bill, and Sens. Todd Young (R-IN) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) flipped their votes on Wednesday, Andrew Desiderio of Punchbowl News reported. Vice President JD Vance was the tie-breaking vote.

Young said in a statement that he flipped his vote after securing a promise from Trump that he would ask Congress for permission on a major strike against Venezuela in advance of such an operation.

[vapor2]

2. Do Hawley and young realize 47 is giving oil

revenues to Qatar instead of the US?

[Johonny]

3. Im sure we can trust Trump to totally misuse

The new found trust these senators have found in him.

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. Kabuki Theater.

This was never going to pass.

When are we going to fucking figure it out? The whole thing is a sham. ALL of it.

This is what the ruling class wants and it’s what they’ll get until the masses figure out that we have to band together and end this whole thing.

But the lights are still on, Netflix is still playing and grubhub is still delivering. So that ain’t happening anytime soon.

We’re at defcon one, it’s revolution time and no one is ready for it. A huge portion of the country doesn’t even realize or care what’s happening to them.

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave indeed. What a sick joke all that bullshit is that we’ve been indoctrinated with.