Schumer says Senate will vote on Venezuela authorization 'this week' [View all]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he expects the Senate to vote on whether to formally authorize the Trump administration’s military actions in Venezuela when members return to Washington this week.

The New York Democrat said he is co-sponsoring a resolution that would block the president from taking further actions in Venezuela following the U.S. strikes there as part of an operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who is being detained in a federal prison in New York. Schumer said the administration, which did not notify Congress ahead of the attack, violated the War Powers Act.

“They did not just do ships off the water. They went inside Venezuela, bombed civilian as well as military places. And it's a violation of the law to do what they did without getting the authorization of Congress,” Schumer said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

“They did not just do ships off the water. They went inside Venezuela, bombed civilian as well as military places. And it's a violation of the law to do what they did without getting the authorization of Congress,” Schumer said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

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