"Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again, Trump raged, adding: This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President's Authority as Commander in Chief."
"I love the president. I think he's doing a great job. I just think, when it comes to Venezuela, which is what we're voting on today I think that if the president should determine that he needed to put troops on the ground in country, Venezuela, I just think in Article I, we would need to vote on that. I thought about this a lot. I've read the resolution. I'm an old law professor, once upon a time, constitutional law. And I just don't know how else to read Article I. I just think we would need to weigh in on that."
Sen. Josh Hawley voted to advance a bipartisan Senate resolution that would block the administration from deploying troops to Venezuela without Congressional approval. President Trump publicly attacked Hawley and four other Republican senators, saying they should never be elected again and arguing the vote hampers American self-defense and presidential authority as Commander in Chief. Hawley explained his vote on social media and in remarks, citing his constitutional reading of Article I and stating that Congress would need to vote if troops were to be sent to Venezuela. The episode highlighted tensions within a narrowly divided Senate with only a three-seat GOP majority.
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