The US President, Donald Trump, confronted a significant setback as the US Senate superior a decision on Thursday that might bar him from taking additional military action against Venezuela with out congressional authorization.
The vote on a procedural measure to advance the struggle powers decision was 52 to 47, as a handful of Trump’s fellow Republicans voted with each Democrat in favor of transferring forward, in accordance with Reuters.
The vote got here days after the US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a fierce military raid in Caracas.
Recall that two earlier makes an attempt to advance related resolutions have been blocked in the Senate final yr by Trump’s fellow Republicans, as the administration ramped up military stress on Venezuela with assaults on boats in the southern Caribbean beginning in September.
Maduro is at the moment going through drug-related offenses in the US, which he denied.
Earlier Trump introduced that Venezuela’s interim authorities had ceded 30-50 million barrels of crude oil to the US.
