Miles Parks

We don't want the U.S.

to be spending its treasure and sending its people overseas.

We want to keep that here.

That is what America first is.

Now, there is quite a bit of debate about how isolationist Trump ever was, but he certainly did push the idea that the U.S.

needs to be less involved overseas.

So when we're talking about Donald Trump's foreign policy ideology, it is easy to think that, huh, his view of the world and his role in it must have changed from term one to term two.

Term one, when he really ran in 2015 and 16 on saying we need to stop getting involved in all of these foreign places, foreign issues.

But.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

People like Rex Tillerson, who was secretary of state, Jim Mattis, who was secretary of defense, people who curbed Donald Trump's instincts.

And now he has people who are willing to enable him.

And so Trump has really just gotten better at using the levers of power, and he's just doing a lot more.

Well, in large part, it's been pretty quiet.

But you have had a bit of pushback, which during this Trump administration is notable because Republicans in Congress, as we all know, have been remarkably acquiescent to Donald Trump.

So there was a vote in the Senate last week to advance legislation that would force Trump to seek approval from Congress to authorize any further military action against Venezuela.

And that passed 52 to 47.

And it included five Republicans, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, Susan Collins from Maine, Todd Young in Indiana, and Josh Hawley of Missouri.