The US Senate on Thursday advanced a bipartisan war powers resolution to prevent Donald Trump from taking further military actions against Venezuela, after he ordered a weekend raid to capture that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, without giving Congress advance notice.
The measure passed with 52 senators in favor and 47 opposed. All Democrats voted for the resolution , as did Republicans Rand Paul, Todd Young, Lisa Murkowski, Josh Hawley and Susan Collins.
Should the Senate approve the measure, it will need to pass the House and be signed by Trump.
The war powers resolution, introduced by the Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, requires Trump to seek permission before attacking or otherwise using the military against Venezuela. Following the Saturday raid that saw US special forces assault the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and spirit Maduro to New York City to face trial on charges related to “narco-terrorism”, the president said he did not tell lawmakers beforehand because “Congress has a tendency to leak”.
Interesting that most republicans voted against this but didn’t filibuster. Speaks to their impotent terror of disobeying the Trump administration. They are truly pathetic.
It won’t get signed even if it passes the house and there’s not enough votes to overturn a veto. So, why even bother filibuster? If there was enough votes to overturn a veto, then they’d just be able to end the filibuster too.
Because it looks bad for the Administration. If they were 100% trying to protect him I think the best move strategically is to filibuster. I interpret this as they don’t support Trump’s military abuses but they’re too scared to actually vote against it.
However it’s possible there is some other explanation I’m missing.