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The White House is working behind-the-scenes to defang GOP concerns about its Venezuela strategy and flip at least two of the five Republicans who voted to advance a resolution that would require President Donald Trump to get congressional sign-off before taking further military action. It’s not clear, however, whether the administration will be successful in getting these Republicans to stand down. Administration officials will likely have until Wednesday, when the Senate is eyeing taking its final vote on the resolution. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, one of the Republicans who helped the bipartisan war powers resolution clear a key procedural hurdle, said he’d heard directly from Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday on the matter. “Marco said to me — he said, ‘we … have no ground troops. We have no plans to put ground troops in,’” Hawley recounted, adding that Rubio said if the administration did send in troops, it would “fall under broader constitutional and statutory provisions.” Hawley said he reiterated his own concerns to Rubio about potential ground troops in Venezuela, and characterized their conversation as “substantive” and “helpful.” He also said he spoke to Trump last week, recalling that the president said a congressional war powers resolution would tie the administration’s hands. Yet asked if he was now going to vote against the war powers resolution, Hawley demurred. “Let’s see what happens,” he said. The administration’s outreach comes after Senate Majority Leader John Thune signaled in an interview Friday during a border visit in McAllen, Texas, that there was a White House effort underway to try to change some of the GOP votes. Thune added Monday there were ongoing conversations with senators and that he didn’t think anyone should be “very surprised” that Trump would call members directly. “He was fairly animated on that subject,” Thune said of Trump. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, another Republican who voted to move forward on the war powers measure, said Monday Trump called her, too, but she wasn’t considering changing her vote. “It wasn’t much of a conversation,” she said about her talk with Trump. Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), another one of the five, declined to say Monday night if he was reconsidering his stance. In addition to Young, Hawley and Murkowski, GOP Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine voted to advance the war powers resolution. Collins has gotten her own heated call from Trump, as well. Benjamin Guggenheim contributed to this report. Lead Art: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) speaks with reporters as he prepares to board a vehicle outside the U.S. Capitol Jan. 8, 2026. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images) | AP

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