WASHINGTON ¨C The U.S. Senate advanced a resolution on Thursday that would bar President Donald Trump from further military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization, a rare rebuke of the Republican leader.
The vote on a procedural measure to advance the war powers resolution was 52 to 47, as five of Trump¡¯s Republicans voted with every Democrat in favor of moving ahead. One Republican senator did not vote.
The vote took ?place days after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a dramatic military raid in Caracas on Saturday. The rebuke for Trump, a day ?after senior Cabinet ?members briefed every member of Congress about its Venezuela policy, marked a shift in the 100-member Senate.
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