This early on, it’s unclear if Democratic fears will prove correct that President Donald Trump has instigated another long-running, open-ended U.S. military commitment in a country with competing power factions and long-standing animosity toward U.S. interference.
Early congressional fallout from the U.S. military incursion into Venezuela to capture the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, has been marked by Republican triumphalism and effusive praise for the Trump administration as well as outrage over what Democrats see as a stark violation of the Constitution’s war powers clause that risks an expensive and draining U.S. embroilment in more nation-building.
Early congressional fallout from the U.S. military incursion into Venezuela to capture the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, has been marked by Republican triumphalism and effusive praise for the Trump administration as well as outrage over what Democrats see as a stark violation of the Constitution’s war powers clause that risks an expensive and draining U.S. embroilment in more nation-building.
This early on, it’s unclear if Democratic fears will prove correct that President Donald Trump has instigated another long-running, open-ended U.S. military commitment in a country with competing power factions and long-standing animosity toward U.
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