Trump unloads on war powers Senate vote in ‘very hot’ phone calls to GOP senators

Published January 9, 2026 9:38pm ET



President Donald Trump has called up several Republican senators to berate them over a recent vote the upper chamber held seeking to restrict his executive powers. 

The president privately unloaded on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD). Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who was viewed as one of the more surprising Republican supporters of the war powers resolution aimed at checking Trump’s military action in Venezuela, was also the recipient of a “very mad, very hot” phone call. 

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