Trump gets Stunned as GOP Revolts on Senate Floor
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What recent events led to the GOP revolt against Trump?
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The joint resolution will be placed on the calendar. At the end of last week, Donald Trump was repeatedly rebuked in the Senate and the House by also many members of his own party. Donald Trump trying to project strength and unlawfully invading Venezuela without authorization. And then Donald Trump, again, continuing to kind of beat his chest about being a predator in the Western hemisphere. But what ultimately I saw was weakness and cracks developing within the Republican party and his MAGA base. There was also that weird story about Donald Trump calling like the secret service on Marjorie Taylor Greene. I'll do a whole other video on that. But that vote right there was a war powers resolution where the Senate voted basically
to restrict Donald Trump's power to further invade Venezuela without the authority of Congress. Separately in the House of Representatives, the Affordable Care Act resolution was also passed to extend the subsidies.
How did the Senate vote on the war powers resolution against Trump?
There are 17 Republicans joining with the Democrats there. That still has to go back to the Senate. We also saw the Senate in a unanimous consent vote agree to put the January 6th plaque up, which Trump and MAGA Mike and Trump's DOJ has been resisting. So you see those cracks developing. I want to bring in Democratic Senator Andy Kim from the great state of New Jersey. Senator Kim, it's so great to see you. What are you seeing develop? Because, I mean, I think that those two votes, also the January 6th plaque vote, which is as Donald Trump was putting the disinformation on the White House website about J6, among a number of things, seems to show actual weakness at the end of this week.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Donald Trump wanted to enter 2026 with a lot of strength. I mean, this is the midterm election year. This is the year that's going to shape the rest of his presidency. And with the start with the Venezuela strikes, I think he thought he is on top. But in fact, this week, what I saw here at the Capitol was a lot of cracks in his support a lot of signs of the weakness and for instance you know we had the the briefing with secretary rubio and secretary hegseth uh you know that was something that i actually think created greater concern amongst senators i think that briefing was a reason why a number of republicans voted against the trump administration with the war powers because nobody wants to have
this go on for years of america running venezuela and that's literally what rubio told us in the briefing he said it publicly since that this is going to be years rubio said that this will be the remainder of the trump administration will be uh you know be running venezuela and nobody wants that and i i think we're starting to see those cracks and i think that this is going to be uh the effort that hopefully will snowball as we get towards the midterm elections
Right. You look at Venezuela and it's like, well, what is the what's the plan?
What cracks are forming within the Republican Party?
And, you know, there seems based on what was said publicly, I know some of the briefing was classified, of course, but there doesn't really seem to be a plan. And then it's like, OK, so you're going to have basically Maduro's team, Delce Rodriguez, Dias Dado, Cabello, the enforcer. They're going to run. And then what about Machado? And now she's going to Mar-a-Lago to give Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize. And maybe there's a trade for that this weekend. And people are like, what are we even doing? We're going to war over Nobel Peace Prizes or because of Maduro's dancing? And by the way, it doesn't seem like – china and russia got the message that they're banned from venezuela because if you look at what lavrov's saying and dimitri they seem to be still pretty chummy with delcey and she seems to be doing things which which is good releasing some political prison but there seems to be this same entrenchment of the regime that was there there before
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What recent events led to the GOP revolt against Trump?
0:03–2:28
2
How did the Senate vote on the war powers resolution against Trump?
2:28–4:30
3
What cracks are forming within the Republican Party?
4:30–6:18
4
What insights does Senator Andy Kim provide about Republican dynamics?
6:18–9:12
5
How is Trump's foreign policy impacting Republican senators?
9:12–11:17
6
What are the implications of the recent Affordable Care Act resolution?
11:17–13:06
7
How are Republican leaders responding to Trump's influence?
13:06–15:17
8
What does the future hold for GOP unity as elections approach?
15:17–20:34