The US Senate took a major step Thursday toward passing a resolution to rein in President Donald Trump’s military actions in Venezuela - a rare bipartisan rebuke following alarm over the secretive capture of leader Nicolas Maduro.
The Democratic-led legislation, which bars further US hostilities against Venezuela without explicit congressional authorization, got through a key procedural vote with support from five Republicans.
The vote on final passage, expected next week, is now seen as little more than a formality, and would mark one of Congress’s most forceful assertions of its war-making authority in decades.
The effort is seen as largely symbolic however, as the resolution faces a steep climb in the US House and almost no prospect of surviving a likely veto by Trump.[AFP]
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The US Senate passed the resolution banning the use of armed forces against Venezuela.
ReplyDeleteDuring the vote on Thursday, 52 senators supported the resolution, and 47 opposed it.
“The motion is agreed to,” a chairman of the meeting said.
El Senado de EE.UU. aprueba impedir que Trump tome más acciones militares contra Venezuela sin la aprobación del Congreso
ReplyDelete✔️ 52 votos a favor
✖️ 47 votos en contra