WASHINGTON ¨C U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a resolution on Wednesday that would have barred U.S. President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela without Congress¡¯ authorization, after the Republican president put pressure on party members who had supported it.
The vote was 51 to 50 for a Republican point of order to dismiss the war powers resolution, as just three members of the president¡¯s party voted with every Democrat in favor ?of moving ahead and Vice President JD Vance came to the Capitol to break the tie.
Opponents had argued that the resolution should ?not move ahead ?because the U.S. does not currently have troops on the ground in Venezuela, after U.S. forces swept into ?Caracas on Jan. 3 and captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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