The Left thinks they can stop Trump legally. It isn’t going to happen.
Now this Congressional Democrat plot to handcuff Trump just crashed and burned.
House Republicans Block Democrat-Led Bid to Weaken Trump’s Venezuela Stance
In a decisive victory for presidential authority, House Republicans on Wednesday evening defeated a Democrat-sponsored effort to strip President Donald Trump of his ability to confront the Maduro regime in Venezuela.
Lawmakers rejected the war powers resolution 211-213, preventing restrictions on Trump’s use of military force against Venezuela without explicit congressional approval. The vote followed Trump’s bold designation of the Maduro regime as a foreign-terrorist organization and his order for a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers.
The measure, pushed by Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, only managed to peel off a handful of Republicans—including outspoken critics like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, and retiring moderate Don Bacon—while nearly the entire GOP conference stood firm against Democrat attempts to tie the president’s hands.
Notably, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas was the only Democrat to vote against the resolution limiting Trump’s powers—a stance that comes just weeks after Trump pardoned the congressman from looming federal bribery charges.
“When war-making power devolves to one person, liberty dissolves,” Massie wrote on X. “Congress needs to vote before the President attempts regime change.”
Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, pushed back firmly, arguing that Trump requires no congressional permission for “precise, limited strikes.”
Trump’s Aggressive Push Against Maduro’s Narco-Regime Gains Momentum
President Trump has directed a swift military buildup around Venezuela, deploying over 15,000 troops to regional waters. The administration has already conducted a vigorous months-long operation targeting Venezuelan drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific, eliminating nearly 100 suspected traffickers in more than two dozen strikes.
Trump has made clear to Politico that socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s “days are numbered,” hinting at potential ground operations in the near future.
The House also soundly rejected a broader Democrat resolution from Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York that sought to block presidential action against any “presidentially designated foreign terrorist organization in the Western Hemisphere” without congressional sign-off. That measure failed 210-216.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune expressed strong support for the intensifying campaign against Maduro.
When pressed on whether the administration seeks regime change, Thune replied, “I don’t know if that’s a publicly stated policy position, but I don’t — I would certainly not have a problem if that was their position. I mean, I think Maduro is a cancer on that continent.”
White House Signals No Retreat Until Maduro Surrenders
In candid interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles laid bare the administration’s unrelenting strategy.
“He [Trump] wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle,” Wiles told the outlet. She also acknowledged that any full-scale ground invasion would require congressional approval.
The failed Democrat resolutions highlight a stark partisan divide: Republicans backing a strong commander-in-chief taking decisive action against a brutal narco-dictatorship, while Democrats seek to constrain Trump’s ability to protect American interests and combat terrorism in the hemisphere.
