Trump team works behind the scenes to get Congress to halt restrictions on further Venezuela attacks
Source: The Independent
Trump team works behind the scenes to get Congress to halt restrictions on further Venezuela attacks
Final vote on Democrats’ resolution to invoke War Powers Act is set for Wednesday
John Bowden in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday 13 January 2026 18:14 GMT
The White House is reportedly working overtime to flip Republican senators back to their side, even after Donald Trump publicly trashed them and advised voters to never elect them to office again.
It comes as the administration suffered a rare defeat in the Senate last week when five members of the president’s party broke ranks to support a War Powers resolution aimed at restricting the administration from further strikes against Venezuela submitted by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia), advancing it to a final floor vote. The vote triggered an angry response from Trump on Truth Social.
“Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again,” wrote a furious Trump on Thursday.
Now the White House is reaching out to some or all of those same senators, according to Politico, and working to alleviate the concerns they have about the administration’s plans for the South American country where U.S. forces abducted its president, Nicolas Maduro, in a stunning raid earlier this month. Maduro is now facing drug trafficking charges in New York.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-venezuela-congress-war-powers-b2899781.html
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