Vice President JD Vance helped spare President Donald Trump another embarrassing defeat on the Senate floor Wednesday, casting a tie-breaking vote to kill a resolution reining in his ability to conduct military operations in Venezuela.

The Senate voted 51-50 to table the measure, reflecting the White House’s continued but wavering sway over a Republican Congress. Just days earlier, five Republicans joined Democrats in a test vote that invited the wrath of the president, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) was able to peel off two of those senators using a GOP “point of order” that rendered it ineligible for a floor vote.

Sens. Todd Young (R-IN) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) flipped their votes on Wednesday afternoon, giving Thune just enough support and ending – for now – Trump’s clash with lawmakers over his military interventions abroad. Vance then arrived at the Capitol to cast the eighth tie-breaker of his tenure as vice president.

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