A push to block Donald Trump from making war on Venezuela fell short in the Senate on Thursday when nearly every Republican sided with the White House.

Advocates for the war powers resolution sought to cast it as an embodiment of MAGA non-interventionism in a bid to sway Republican senators. The GOP, however, largely lined up behind Trump instead as he mulls attacking Venezuela.

Senators voted 51-49 against the resolution, dooming it even as a U.S. aircraft carrier sailed toward the Caribbean . The resolution would have faced long odds even if it had passed, since Trump could have vetoed it, as he did in 2019 in the face of a measure blocking him from supporting Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen .

Using language drawn from the MAGA lexicon, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the lone Republican c

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