{"id":17444,"date":"2026-01-08T18:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-rages-about-republicans-backing-war-powers-resolution-should-never-be-elected-to-office-again\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:46:56","slug":"trump-rages-about-republicans-backing-war-powers-resolution-should-never-be-elected-to-office-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-rages-about-republicans-backing-war-powers-resolution-should-never-be-elected-to-office-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump rages about Republicans backing war powers resolution: \u2018Should never be elected to office again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump lashed out at the five Republican senators who voted to advance legislation that would constrain his war powers in Venezuela on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/08\/congress\/the-5-republicans-who-voted-against-trump-on-war-powers-00716245\" target=\"_blank\">The GOP lawmakers<\/a> \u2014 Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Todd Young of Indiana and Josh Hawley of Missouri \u2014 joined with the chamber\u2019s entire slate of Democrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/08\/senate-votes-to-restrict-trump-on-venezuela-00716127\" target=\"_blank\">tee up a vote that could compel Trump<\/a> to seek the approval of Congress before taking any additional military action in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The president, who is looking to wield his foreign policy powers to reassert greater U.S. control over the Western Hemisphere, <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115860738010214901\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on his social media platform Thursday<\/a> that Republicans \u201cshould be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats to take our Powers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senators, he declared, \u201cshould never be elected to office again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vote greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President&#8217;s authority as Commander in Chief,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Collins is the only one of the five Republicans who is up for reelection this year. Her seat has long been a top target for Democrats, although she has continuously won in a state that Democrats typically carry in presidential and other statewide races.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump lashed out at the five Republican senators who voted to advance legislation that would constrain his war powers in Venezuela on Thursday. The GOP lawmakers \u2014 Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Todd Young of Indiana and Josh Hawley of Missouri \u2014 joined with the chamber\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}