President Donald Trump again ripped into a group of Senate Republicans who voted to rein in his policing powers in Venezuela. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
That foursome joined all Senate Democrats to vote in favor of Sen. Tim Kaine’s, D-Va., war powers resolution, which, if passed, would require Trump to receive congressional approval before further military force is used in Venezuela.
Lawmakers are expected to take a final vote on the resolution on Wednesday.
When Kaine’s effort initially advanced, Trump blasted the defectors and declared that they should "never be elected to office again." With the vote fast-approaching, Trump didn’t hesitate to make clear that their votes were still fresh on his mind.
He panned Paul for routinely voting against GOP policies, and then turned his sights to Murkowski, Collins and Young.
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., also voted to curtail Trump's war powers in Venezuela, but he escaped Trump's criticism Tuesday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The White House and Senate Republican leadership have been working to flip the lawmakers in order to prevent the resolution from passing, but it may not be the successful pressure campaign that they had hoped for.
Collins, when asked if she would still vote in favor of the resolution after leaving the Senate GOP’s weekly closed-door policy lunch, said, "Wes."
There was also a fifth Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who voted to advance the resolution. Trump notably did not mention him during his speech.
That comes after Hawley spoke with several administration officials on what the next steps in Venezuela would be. Hawley said that he was told by officials that the administration would "abide by the statutory notification requirements, and also, if they took action that resulted in major ground operations would come back to Congress."
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Hawley didn’t say if that would flip his vote and noted that he was in "listening and receive mode at this time." Still, it did go a long way to address his biggest issue of boots on the ground in Venezuela.
"The administration's view is that the resolution is way broader than ground troops, and I said, ‘Well, you know, and I didn't draft the resolution, but my concern is about ground troops in Venezuela without congressional authorization,’" Hawley said.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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