The US Senate on Thursday advanced a bipartisan war powers resolution to prevent Donald Trump from taking further military actions against Venezuela, after he ordered a weekend raid to capture that country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, without giving Congress advance notice.
The measure passed with 52 senators in favor and 47 opposed. All Democrats voted for the resolution , as did Republicans Rand Paul, Todd Young, Lisa Murkowski, Josh Hawley and Susan Collins.
Should the Senate approve the measure, it will need to pass the House and be signed by Trump.
The war powers resolution, introduced by the Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, requires Trump to seek permission before attacking or otherwise using the military against Venezuela. Following the Saturday raid that saw US special forces assault the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and spirit Maduro to New York City to face trial on charges related to “narco-terrorism”, the president said he did not tell lawmakers beforehand because “Congress has a tendency to leak”.
Congress could override but they would need a 2/3rds majority and good fuckin luck with that
They passed the Epstein bill almost unanimously, which surprised me to be honest. You never know.
If they can only muster 52 senators for the first pass there is no chance in hell it will gain more votes to override a veto.
Hey, 17 Republicans in the House just broke with the party line to vote to extend ACA subsidies. So again, there’s always hope!
Not really.
There have been 112 veto overrides in all of US history. They are pretty rare and only happen on bills that have broad support. Getting enough votes for a simple majority is orders of magnitude easier than a super-majority.
Republicans probably had insider info that the files would be censored to the point of being useless