SEN TIM KAINE: Trump's Venezuela strike trampled Congress' war powers. Congress must stop it |
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., discusses the U.S. strikes on Venezuela, debate over the War Powers Act and more on ‘The Sunday Briefing.’
President Donald Trump’s unauthorized military attack on Venezuela to arrest Nicolás Maduro — however terrible he is — is a sickening return to a day when the United States asserted the right to dominate the internal political affairs of all nations in the Western Hemisphere. That history is replete with failures — in Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere — that destabilized the region and led to deep hostility toward the United States.
The White House spin room is already working desperately to sell this disaster to the American people, including to the anti-interventionist MAGA base that elected President Trump. At the top of the to-do list was a presser that included Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
During the presser, Trump dug an even deeper hole. He acknowledged that the illegal operation could have come at a serious cost to U.S. service members. He pledged to "run" Venezuela and was unable to answer follow-up questions about what that means. He........