WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected a bipartisan effort to rein in President Donald Trump’s war authority in Venezuela after it failed to garner enough Republican support to overcome a procedural vote on Thursday evening.

Senators voted 49-51 to restrict Trump’s ability to attack Venezuelan territory, falling short of the majority threshold required to discharge the bill from the Foreign Relations Committee and bring it to the floor for a final vote. Only two Republicans backed the effort: Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.

Both Utah Sens. John Curtis and Mike Lee opposed the measure.

The resolution, if passed, is largely a symbolic measure expressing disapproval of the Trump administration’s recent strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea, w

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