On March 9, 2026, a group of Senate Democrats escalated their opposition to the Trump administration’s undeclared war on Iran by announcing they would force a series of repeated War Powers Act votes unless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio agreed to testify …
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On March 4, 2026, the U.S. Senate voted 47-53 to reject a War Powers Resolution that would have required President Trump to seek congressional authorization before continuing military strikes on Iran. The resolution was introduced by Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and co-sponsored by 26 colleagues …
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On March 3, 2026, the Senate voted on a bipartisan War Powers Resolution introduced by Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and co-led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA). The resolution, which had been introduced on January 29, 2026 - weeks before the strikes began - sought …
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies for nearly three hours before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about U.S. policy toward Venezuela, answering questions for the first time since U.S. forces captured President Nicolás Maduro on January 3. Rubio tells senators: “I can tell you right …
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The Senate voted 52-47 to advance a war powers resolution (S.J.Res.90) blocking further US military action in Venezuela without Congressional authorization, dealing President Trump a rare bipartisan rebuke. Five Republicans joined all Democrats: Senators Rand Paul (co-sponsor), Susan Collins, Lisa …
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The Trump administration’s naval blockade of Venezuela has killed at least 105 people in 29 strikes on 30 vessels as of December 22. The US Coast Guard seized the Centuries tanker carrying 1.8 million barrels of Venezuelan crude to China. Approximately 15,000 US troops and more than a dozen …
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The Senate approved a $901 billion National Defense Authorization Act on December 17, 2025, by a bipartisan vote of 77-20, establishing unprecedented Congressional oversight mechanisms explicitly designed to constrain Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s operational authority. The legislation …
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President Trump formally pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. Federal prosecutors had documented that Hernández facilitated the movement of approximately 400 tons of …
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The Office of Management and Budget quietly deleted statutory back pay guarantees from government shutdown guidance, signaling possible denial of restitution to 620,000 furloughed federal workers despite a 2019 law requiring it. OMB issued a memo arguing Trump lacks legal obligation to provide back …
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On his second day in office, President Trump granted a full and unconditional pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, who was serving a life sentence without parole for operating ’the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the …
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