"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, began Trump. He continued: This Vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President's Authority as Commander in Chief. In any event, and despite their stupidity, the War Powers Act is Unconstitutional, totally violating Article II of the Constitution, as all Presidents, and their Departments of Justice, have determined before me."
"The debate really isn't about good or evil, bad or good. There's a lot of evil in the world. The question is about who has the power to take the country to war, Paul told reporters on Wednesday. The Constitution was very clear, and it divides war into two aspects. One is the declaration or initiation of war, that power was given to Congress, and then the execution of the war, the making of the war, was left to the president."
Calls for the electoral defeat of five Republican senators followed their vote with Senate Democrats to advance a resolution that would require presidential requests for congressional approval before further operations in Venezuela. The measure emerged after American forces took former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro into custody during an operation characterized by the administration as law enforcement. The resolution is seen as a challenge to executive authority and a test of the War Powers Act. Critics argued the measure undermines the president's role as commander in chief, while proponents emphasized the constitutional allocation of war-declaring authority to Congress versus wartime execution by the president.
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