Senate Rejects Resolution to Bar Trump From Launching Military Operations Against Cuba

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The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Senate halted a resolution on April 28 to bar President Donald Trump from being able to direct military action against Cuba without first obtaining Congressional approval.Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) invoked the 1973 War Powers Act to force the Senate vote on Tuesday. In raising the war powers issue, those Senate Democrats cited recent U.S. combat operations in Venezuela and Iran, and March comments by Trump that “Cuba’s next.”

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