BREAKING: Five Republican Senators DEFY Trump and break ranks to pass a vote to neuter his military power in a shock betrayal. If Donald Trump believed he could bomb another country, kidnap its president, and claim its oil reserves without pushback from a neutered Congress, he was faced with a rude awakening today as the usually compliant senior chamber of the federal legislature finally awoke from its torpor. READ MORE :

BREAKING: Five Republican Senators DEFY Trump and break ranks to pass a vote to neuter his military power in a shock betrayal.

BREAKING: Five Republican Senators DEFY Trump and break ranks to pass a vote to neuter his military power in a shock betrayal.

If Donald Trump believed he could bomb another country, kidnap its president, and claim its oil reserves without pushback from a neutered Congress, he was faced with a rude awakening today as the usually compliant senior chamber of the federal legislature finally awoke from its torpor.

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate delivered a rare, bipartisan rebuke to Trump’s out-of-control warmongering, advancing a War Powers resolution to stop him from launching further military attacks on Venezuela without congressional approval. The vote — 52 to 47 — came after Trump ordered a weekend raid on Caracas that spiraled into injuries, civilian deaths, and the shocking seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, all without notifying lawmakers.

Trump’s excuse for not even notifying Congress in advance? They have a “tendency to leak.” That flimsy justification didn’t fly — even with Republicans.

Led by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine and joined by Republican senators Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Todd Young, and Josh Hawley, the resolution makes clear what the Constitution already plainly delineates: one man does not get to start a war.

“Bombing another nation’s capital and removing their leader is an act of war, plain and simple,” Kentucky Senator Paul said, bluntly reminding Trump that the presidency is not an imperial throne. Paul positioned his criticism in a way to make it less of a direct attack on Trump by adding, “The reason you argue on principle against even things that appear to be good … isn’t even always for the current president, it’s for the next president,” he said.

Senator Kaine of Virginia was even more critical, calling Trump’s actions “clearly illegal,” “deeply unpopular,” and “suspiciously secretive.” While Americans struggle with rising costs, Trump was busy launching a shadow war that experts say has already killed at least 110 people, with disputed claims about drug trafficking used as cover for what Democrats now say looks like a plan for regime change and the purloining of natural resources like Venezuela’s sizable oil reserves.

And the threat of unauthorized war doesn’t stop with Venezuela.

Trump has openly threatened military action against Iran, Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, and Nigeria, while floating the idea of U.S. “boots on the ground” and even bragging that America would temporarily “run” Venezuela. That’s not strength — it’s reckless authoritarianism.

Republican leaders tried to spin the Maduro capture as a “law enforcement operation.” But the majority of senators weren’t fooled. As Murkowski put it, Congress must “affirm our role under Article I.” Or, as Paul warned, the country risks being “run by emergency.”

The resolution may face long odds in the House or a Trump veto, but the message is unmistakable: enough is enough. Trump is not a king. The Constitution still exists. And even this Senate knows a one-man war machine is a danger to democracy — and the world.

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