By C.J. Atkins
An unlikely bipartisan alliance is forming in the U.S. Senate to halt President Donald Trump’s escalating but undeclared war against Venezuela.
Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff of California and Tim Kaine of Virginia have teamed up with Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky to force a vote on a resolution that would require the White House to secure congressional approval before launching direct military attacks against the South American country.
The Senate resolution (S.J. Res. 83), also backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt., is the sister to a similar measure already introduced in the U.S. House (H.Con.Res. 51) by Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Greg Cesar, D-Texas, and Jesús “Chuy” Garcia, D-Ill.
Though both the Senate and House are in MAGA hands, with Trump pulling the strings of Republican leaders in the two chambers, the ranks of lawmakers resisting the legislative branch’s total abdication of war authority to the president is growing, thanks to mass public pressure…READ MORE
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