Headlines for October 9, 2025
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Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a bipartisan resolution that would have limited President Trump’s authority to launch military strikes against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean. The resolution was led by Democratic Senators Adam Schiff and Tim Kaine, with backing from Republican Senator Rand Paul. Here’s Senator Kaine.
Sen. Tim Kaine: “Letting a single individual take us to war based on a secret list that he won’t even reveal to the public or to Congress sets such a dangerous precedent. And if my colleagues, as they stated, believe we should be at war in the Caribbean or at war with nations in the Americas over the narcotraffickers, they’ve had the ability the entire time to bring a resolution before us and have that debate in front of the American public.”
This comes as 60 organizations, including Oxfam America and Human Rights First, sent a letter to Congress Wednesday condemning the recent U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean, writing, “We fear, barring decisive action by members of Congress, there will be more strikes, more extrajudicial killings, and potentially a full-blown limitless war with one or more countries in the region, with likely devastating humanitarian and geopolitical consequences.”
Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed his forces halted a “false flag operation” to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Caracas.