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In a surprise vote outcome on Thursday, the U.S. Senate narrowly voted to advance a resolution to limit U.S. President Donald Trump from taking any further unauthorized military action in or against Venezuela.

The 52-47 procedural vote on Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine’s war powers resolution was supported by all Democrats and five Republicans.

In a surprise vote outcome on Thursday, the U.S. Senate narrowly voted to advance a resolution to limit U.S. President Donald Trump from taking any further unauthorized military action in or against Venezuela.

The 52-47 procedural vote on Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine’s war powers resolution was supported by all Democrats and five Republicans.

While there is still a long way to go to get to potential congressional passage, the vote sends a political signal to the White House that a critical bipartisan mass of lawmakers may have finally reached their limit on Trump’s recent extraordinary assertions of unilateral executive power to use the military as he pleases—including by initiating an open-ended commitment to run Venezuela following last weekend’s covert operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro, to say nothing of recent threats against Colombia, Cuba,........

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