Over the weekend, the Trump administration captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and declared that the United States is going to “run” the country and take its oil. Despite an overwhelming majority of Americans opposing war with Venezuela, Trump and his administration are plunging forward and committing the U.S. to an uncertain role with an unknown timeline.
Meanwhile, here at home, Americans continue to face the crisis of skyrocketing health care costs after Trump and Republicans failed to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits that raised premiums for roughly 500,000 Illinoisans.
Toplines on Illegal Venezuela Operation
Trump campaigned on being the peace president. Now, he’s dragging us into a costly military action in Venezuela to distract from skyrocketing health care costs and the release of the Epstein files.
Trump’s strikes on Venezuela are unconstitutional – only Congress has the authority to declare war.
- Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval.
- The justification for this war isn’t about stemming the flow of drugs. This is about regime change. This is about enriching oil corporations and billionaires.
- REMINDER: If Trump really cares about drug trafficking, why did he pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who conspired with some of the worst drug traffickers in the world to bring more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States?
The American people do not support a regime change war to seize oil in Venezuela and they do not want to foot the bill.
- In November, the majority of Americans said the administration needed to explain what the U.S. intends regarding any action, and that it had not done so clearly yet.
- 70 percent of Americans oppose military action in Venezuela.
- Three in four Americans also say Trump would need congressional approval before taking military action in Venezuela, including just over half of Republicans.
While millions of Americans are facing rising prices and skyrocketing health care costs here at home, Trump is focused on dedicating resources to run a country 2,000 miles away for the foreseeable future.
In his press conference, Trump said: “We are going to run [Venezuela], until such time we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
