It looks like the Senate has spoken out in opposition to Trump’s withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan:

#Senate INVOKED Cloture on McConnell amend (Syria & Afghanistan troop withdrawal) to S. 1 (Middle East) by a vote of 68-23. — Senate Periodicals (@SenatePPG) January 31, 2019

Senate votes 68-23 to advance McConnell amendment expressing opposition to "precipitous" withdrawal from Syria & Afghanistan — Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 31, 2019

68-23: Senate advances McConnell amdt opposing precipitous withdrawal of US forces from Syria and Afghanistan. 60 votes were needed. pic.twitter.com/E8kwr7A0ls — Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) January 31, 2019

Notice this is called the McConnell amendment, meaning he sponsored it.







The amendment has been added to Rubio’s bill called “Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019”, which we wrote about, in part, here.

So far a roll-call vote hasn’t been published yet so that you can see which Republicans voted for and against it. But I’ll post it as soon as I get it…

UPDATE:

Here’s the roll call vote. Note that Cruz, Lee, and Kennedy were the only NO votes. But several didn’t vote at all: