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- The U.S. Senate voted 51-47 to block a resolution requiring congressional approval for any President Donald Trump-ordered military action against Cuba.
- Rick Scott argued a war-powers vote was unnecessary because no troops are in Cuba.
- Susan Collins and Rand Paul joined Democrat John Fetterman in voting against the resolution.
- Democrats claim the blockade and Trump’s “Cuba’s next” remarks constitute hostilities, a view White House rejects as within president’s commander-in-chief authority.
