""We're not going to have this thing turn around overnight, but I think we're making good and decent progress,""
""We are certainly better off today in Venezuela than we were four weeks ago, and I think and hope and expect that we'll be better off in three months and six months and nine months than we would have been had Maduro still been there.""
""I can tell you right now with full certainty, we are not postured to nor do we intend or expect to have to take any military action in Venezuela at any time,""
""I think it would require the emergence of an imminent threat of the kind that we do not anticipate at this time.""
Republican and Democratic senators offered starkly different readings of the administration's foreign policy and rhetoric. The Jan. 3 raid removed Maduro and a major U.S. national security threat in the Western Hemisphere. Administration officials assert that the United States is safer and will work with interim authorities to stabilize Venezuela. Officials expect steady progress over months and report current leaders are cooperating and will soon see benefits. Sanctions will be eased to allow oil sales, with proceeds held in a U.S. Treasury-controlled account and released after approval of monthly budgets to fund basic services.
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