Senate Faces Vote Next Week to Block Trump on Venezuela

A Democrat-led effort in the Senate to restrict President Donald Trump’s ability to take military action against Venezuela could be headed for a vote next week.

A War Powers resolution floated by Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., would bar U.S. military strikes on Venezuela unless Congress authorizes them.

Lawmakers renewed the push after Trump told Politico on Tuesday that he is not ruling out hitting targets “on land very soon” as his administration expands a maritime campaign aimed at alleged drug-smuggling networks in the Caribbean.

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