Several Republican senators voted this Thursday with Democrats to promote a bipartisan resolution that, if approved, would prevent the American president, donald trumpuse military force against Venezueladays after their attack against the Latin American country, which left a hundred dead and the capture of its head of state, Nicolas Maduro.
A total of five Republicans voted in this regard: Rand Paul, co-sponsor of the measure; Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Josh Hawley and Todd Young. Along with the Democrats, they were alarmed that Trump would deploy “forces on the ground” in Venezuela, an option that the president has not publicly ruled out.
The resolution is expected to be voted on next week, but it will have to go through an amendment process and there is no guarantee that the final resolution will gain the necessary support. It would also have to receive a ‘green light’ from the House of Representatives and would face an eventual veto by the president of the country.
Even so, this vote on blocking the use of military force “in or against Venezuela” without authorization from the Congress It is a symbolic victory for the legislators who have undermined Trump’s threats in this regard, according to the American newspaper ‘The Hill’.
After this, Trump himself has attacked the senators of his party who voted in favor of the measure and considered that none of them “should be re-elected”, as he wrote on his social network profile. Social Truth.
“Republicans should be ashamed of the senators who just voted with Democrats to try to take away our power to fight and defend America. This vote greatly hinders self-defense and national security, impeding the exercise of the president’s authority as commander in chief,” he wrote.
However, the president assured that, “in any case, and despite its ‘stupidity’, the war powers resolution – the official name of the document – is unconstitutional and violates” the Constitution.
