The proposal, if enacted, would unravel the administration's plan to take control of Venezuela's oil exports.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the sponsor of the bipartisan measure, voted with Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) to discharge the resolution out of committee and bring it to the floor.
A vote to pass the resolution itself is expected next week. The Senate is likely to vote to proceed to a resolution on Monday and spend the rest of the week debating it.
The resolution still needs to pass the House — where a similar measure failed in a close vote last month — and it faces a certain veto from Trump.
There likely aren't enough votes in either chamber to override Trump, something that requires a two-thirds majority.
Even so, Senate passage of the resolution to block further use of military force "within or against Venezuela" without authorization from Congress is a major symbolic victory for lawmakers alarmed over Trump's threats to project power throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Senators in both parties are alarmed that Trump will deploy "boots on the ground" in Venezuela, something the president didn't rule out during a press conference Saturday after the overnight raid to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.
A similar measure failed in early November — only garnering two Republican votes, from Paul and Murkowski — but Collins said Thursday that circumstances have changed, explaining why she flipped her vote to a yes.
She pointed out that Trump says the U.S. will "run" Venezuela and hasn't ruled out the possibility of deploying U.S. troops to the country if needed to maintain order.
"With Maduro rightfully captured, the circumstances have now changed. While I support the operation to seize Nicolás Maduro, which was extraordinary in its precision and complexity, I do not support committing additional U.S. forces or entering into any long-term military involvement in Venezuela or Greenland without specific congressional authorization."
Sponsors of the legislation had hoped there would be more Republican support for stopping military operations against Venezuela after the administration conducted the weekend mission, which killed more than 100 people and left seven U.S. troops wounded.
Read the full report at thehill.com.
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