UNITED STATES President Donald Trump is putting senators from his own parties under intense pressure to vote down a war powers resolution which was set for a vote today.

The resolution would limit the increasingly authoritarian president’s ability to carry out further military action against Venezuela.

Five GOP senators joined with Democrats to advance the resolution last week, but President Trump has lashed out at the defectors as he tries to head off passage of the Bill.

Democrats are forcing the vote after US troops kidnapped Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a deadly night-time raid earlier this month.

The Venezuelans say more than 100 people were killed during the attack, including 32 Cuban nationals.

President Trump said at a speech in Michigan on Tuesday: “Here we have one of the most successful attacks ever and they find a way to be against it. It’s pretty amazing. And it’s a shame.”

He also hurled insults at several of the Republicans who advanced the legislation, calling Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky a “stone-cold loser” and Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine “disasters.”

President Trump’s latest comments followed earlier phone calls with the senators, which they described as terse.

The fury being directed their way from the president highlighted how the war powers’ vote has taken on new political significance as President Trump seeks to achieve his stated aim of full control over the Western Hemisphere.

The legislation, even if passed by the Senate, has virtually no chance of becoming law because it would eventually need to be signed by President Trump himself. But it represented both a test of GOP loyalty to the president and a marker for how much leeway the Republican-controlled Senate is willing to give Trump to use the military abroad.

Democratic Senator Tim Kaine said the Trump administration is “furious at the notion that Congress wants to be Congress.”