SENATE PASSES 88-2

The shock was instant. Nicolás Maduro was gone, toppled in a lightning U.S. operation that never got a green light from Congress. Cameras showed Caracas; the real explosion hit Washington. Senators scrambled, furious, blindsided, demanding to know who decides when America goes to war. One resolution now stands between an unchecked presid… Continues…

Nicolás Maduro’s sudden removal has become less a story about Venezuela than a mirror held up to American democracy. Senator Tim Kaine’s push for a war powers vote has forced colleagues to confront an uncomfortable question: if a president can launch such a decisive operation alone, what remains of Congress’s constitutional role in war and peace? For Kaine and his allies, this is not a dispute over tactics but a fight over the nation’s democratic soul.