US EditionUS House Defeats Bids to Rein in Trump Venezuela Campaign
House votes defeated two resolutions aiming to restrict Trump’s use of military force in the Western Hemisphere amid rising tensions with Venezuela, with over 90 killed in recent strikes.
- On Wednesday the U.S. House of Representatives voted down two War Powers Resolutions limiting President Donald Trump, with one failing 210-216 and the other 211-213.
- House Democrats argued the measures were needed to reassert Congress's constitutional role over war declarations and to direct removal of U.S. forces from Venezuela without congressional approval.
- The administration has meanwhile continued operations, including designating Venezuela's government as a foreign terrorist organization, ordering a `complete and total blockade`, seizing at least one tanker, and U.S. forces killing more than 90 people in strikes since September while labeling fentanyl a 'weapon of mass destruction'.
- The immediate effect is that their failure leaves the administration's campaign on its current footing and limits congressional leverage, despite three House Republicans joining Democrats and one Democrat opposing.
- The dispute centers on a Sept. 2 strike that killed two survivors; Adm. Frank Bradley briefed oversight committees, but Democrats said more questions remain as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declined to release the full video.
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The Washington House of Representatives rejected on Wednesday two resolutions on war powers presented to Congress to prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from unilaterally launching, without the Capitol, against Venezuela. Republican votes, a party with a lean minority in the lower House, were enough, with the addition of a Democrat, to keep them from going ahead.
The members of the committee rejected the arbitrariness with which President Trump carries out attacks on ships in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
House Rejects Measures to Block Strikes on Venezuela, Drug Smuggling Boats - The Thinking Conservative News
The U.S. House rejected two resolutions requiring Trump to get congressional approval before military action against Venezuela or drug boats. The post House Rejects Measures to Block Strikes on Venezuela, Drug Smuggling Boats appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives rejected two Democratic-led resolutions aimed at limiting the attacks of President Donald Trump’s administration on drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and “hostilities within or against Venezuela.” The first of these resolutions had been presented by the highest-ranking member of the House’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Gregory Meeks, who expressly ordered the Republican president to stop “hostilit…
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