Menu

US Senate blocks bid to stop Trump using military against Cuba
🖼️
0

US Senate blocks bid to stop Trump using military against Cuba

Al Jazeera·Al Jazeera Staff·about 1 month ago
#7TOIBMI0
Reading 0:00
15s threshold

Senator ​Tim Kaine says if anyone did to the US ‘what we are doing to Cuba’, it would be considered ‘an act of war’. The United States Senate has blocked a resolution that would have prevented President Donald Trump from ordering ⁠military action against Cuba without congressional approval. The Republican-led Senate voted 51 to 47 on Tuesday, almost entirely along party lines, on a procedural measure that blocked a Democratic-led war powers resolution, ⁠as members of Trump’s party argued that there are no active US hostilities against Cuba and curbing the president’s powers was not necessary.…

Continue reading — create a free account

Join HashtagPLUS to read full articles, follow hashtags, vote, and join the conversation.

Read More