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WASHINGTON (AP) — For House Republicans, the political year started with a pep rally of sorts as President Donald Trump gathered them at Washington’s Kennedy Center for a stemwinder of a speech. But by the time lawmakers had completed their first week of work this midterm election year, fractures in the party were already showing.
In September, Trump designated Venezuela and all of these nations, among others, as “major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries” under U.S. law. That could make them targets under the drug-war rationale he outlined in the interview and the briefing.
It’s not a year thing, it’s a month thing,” Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez said of his hopes for new elections in Venezuela.
The war powers resolution will need another vote in the Senate before it becomes official. Still, the five defectors' rebellion served as a sharp rebuke.
President Donald Trump is huddling with House Republicans at the Trump Kennedy Center on Tuesday as Congress kicks off its second half of the term.