{"id":17873,"date":"2026-01-18T04:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-scrambles-to-kill-venezuela-war-powers-resolution-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:23:10","slug":"gop-scrambles-to-kill-venezuela-war-powers-resolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-scrambles-to-kill-venezuela-war-powers-resolution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP scrambles to kill Venezuela war powers resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate GOP leaders are working overtime to quash a resolution requiring President Donald Trump to come to Congress before taking additional military action in Venezuela. They don&rsquo;t yet know if they have the votes. Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday they are in conversations with rank-and-file GOP members&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/14\/congress\/senate-war-powers-scramble-00728197\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate GOP leaders are working overtime to quash a resolution requiring President Donald Trump to come to Congress before taking additional military action in Venezuela. They don&rsquo;t yet know if they have the votes. Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday they are in conversations with rank-and-file GOP members&#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-17873","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\/17873","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=17873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}