{"id":310355,"date":"2025-12-22T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=310355"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:34:50","slug":"bill-to-block-trump-from-launching-war-with-venezuela-fails-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/bill-to-block-trump-from-launching-war-with-venezuela-fails-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill To Block Trump from Launching War with Venezuela Fails in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The House also killed a War Powers Resolution aimed at stopping Trump’s bombing campaign against alleged drug boats.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

17 Dec 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The House on Wednesday voted down a War Powers Resolution meant to block President Trump from launching a war with Venezuela without congressional authorization, as required by the Constitution.<\/p>\n

The bill failed in a vote of 211-213<\/a>, with nine representatives not voting. Just three Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the bill: Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), and Don Bacon (NE). One Democrat, Henry Cuellar (TX), voted against the legislation.<\/p>\n

The legislation would have directed the president<\/a> to remove \u201cUnited States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the Venezuela bill, another War Powers Resolution aimed at stopping President Trump\u2019s bombing campaign against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific Ocean also failed. That bill failed in a vote of 210-216<\/a>, with two Republicans (Massie and Bacon) voting in favor and two Democrats (Ceullar and Vicente Gonzalez (TX) voting against.<\/p>\n

The votes came a day after President Trump declared<\/a> a \u201ccomplete and total blockade\u201d on \u201csanctioned\u201d tankers going into and leaving Venezuela, an action that\u2019s widely considered an act of war under international law. President Trump and his top officials have also been clear that their goal is regime change.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we want a miniature Afghanistan in the Western Hemisphere?\u201d Massie, a co-sponsor of the bill, asked on the House floor before the vote. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf that cost is acceptable to this Congress, then we should vote on it as a voice of the people and in accordance with our Constitution,\u201d Massie continued. \u201cAnd yet today, here we aren\u2019t even voting on whether to declare war or authorize the use of military force. All we\u2019re voting on is a War Powers Resolution that strengthens the fabric of our Republic by reasserting the plain and simple language in the Constitution that Congress must decide questions of war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several polls in recent months have found that the idea of the US going to war with Venezuela is extremely unpopular among Americans.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dave DeCamp is the news editor of<\/em> antiwar.com.<\/p>\n

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