{"id":21057,"date":"2026-01-12T18:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21057"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:13:36","slug":"trump-threatened-gop-senators-who-voted-for-war-powers-resolution-in-angry-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21057","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatened GOP senators who voted for war powers resolution in &#8216;angry&#8217; calls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Hours after the Senate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/senate-advances-measure-restrict-trumps-power-use-military-force-venez-rcna252892\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted to advance the war powers resolution rebuking the White House\u2019s current and future actions in Venezuela<\/a>, President Donald Trump placed \u201cangry\u201d calls to each of the five Republicans who crossed the aisle, according to people with knowledge of the calls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Rand Paul, R-Ky.; Susan Collins, R-Maine; and Todd Young, R-Ind., voted with Democrats to require the administration to get congressional approval for future military action in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s vote was a procedural motion, and it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/senate-advances-measure-restrict-trumps-power-use-military-force-venez-rcna252892\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">advances the legislation to a full Senate vote<\/a>&nbsp;that will require a simple majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after the vote, Trump threatened each senator with primary challenges, vowing to unseat them, the people said.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first action&nbsp;in Venezuela already required Congressional authorization and was unconstitutional!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/trump-threatened-gop-senators-voted-215718084.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/trump-threatened-gop-senators-voted-215718084.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hours after the Senate voted to advance the war powers resolution rebuking the White House\u2019s current and future actions in Venezuela, President Donald Trump placed \u201cangry\u201d calls to each of the five Republicans who crossed the aisle, according to people with knowledge of the calls.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Rand Paul, R-Ky.; Susan Collins, R-Maine; and Todd Young, R-Ind., voted with Democrats to require the administration to get congressional approval for future military action in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s vote was a procedural motion, and it advances the legislation to a full Senate vote that will require a simple majority.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the vote, Trump threatened each senator with primary challenges, vowing to unseat them, the people said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first action in Venezuela already required Congressional authorization and was unconstitutional! <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/trump-threatened-gop-senators-voted-215718084.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,542,429,221,129,509,201,865,170,747,741,158],"class_list":["post-21057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-politics","tag-rule-of-law","tag-senate","tag-trump","tag-unconstitutional","tag-venezuela","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21058,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions\/21058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}