"Madison called it the crown jewel of Congress. The framers understood a simple truth: to the extent that war-making power devolves to one person, liberty dissolves. If the president believes military action against Venezuela is justified and needed, he should make the case, and Congress should vote before American lives and treasure are spent on regime change in South America,"
"Let's be honest about likely outcomes. Do we truly believe that Nicolas Maduro will be replaced by a modern-day George Washington? How did that work out in Cuba or Syria? Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDsweapons of mass destruction that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook, except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico, or China, or Colombia, and the president would not have pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez."
Rep. Thomas Massie called for the president to seek Congressional approval prior to any direct military action against Venezuela, citing James Madison and constitutional allocation of war powers to the legislature. Massie warned that concentrating war-making authority in the executive endangers liberty and insisted Congress should vote before American lives and treasure are committed to regime change. He expressed skepticism about optimistic outcomes in Venezuela, compared likely results to interventions in Cuba and Syria, criticized past false pretexts for war, and characterized current pressure as motivated by oil and regime-change objectives. President Trump publicly cited reclaiming oil rights.
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