{"id":17568,"date":"2026-01-11T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-5-republicans-who-voted-against-trump-on-venezuela-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:22:05","slug":"the-5-republicans-who-voted-against-trump-on-venezuela-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-5-republicans-who-voted-against-trump-on-venezuela-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Republicans who voted against Trump on Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Senate Republicans joined with Democratic lawmakers in a surprise rebuke of President Donald Trump Thursday, voting to advance legislation that would force the commander in chief to seek Congress&rsquo; OK before taking any additional military action in Venezuela. Trump attacked the lawmakers in a Truth Social post after the procedural vote&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/08\/congress\/the-5-republicans-who-voted-against-trump-on-war-powers-00716245\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Senate Republicans joined with Democratic lawmakers in a surprise rebuke of President Donald Trump Thursday, voting to advance legislation that would force the commander in chief to seek Congress&rsquo; OK before taking any additional military action in Venezuela. Trump attacked the lawmakers in a Truth Social post after the procedural vote&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568","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=17568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}