Schumer Rushes To Block Trump Admin’s Success In Venezuela Despite Previously Urging Regime Change

Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer told “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday he would introduce a War Powers Act resolution to prevent further military operations against Venezuela.

President Donald Trump announced in a Saturday post on Truth Social that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were arrested in Caracas by a law enforcement operation protected by American military forces. Schumer called the operation “lawlessness,” Congress needed to act.

“The American people this morning, George, are scratching their heads in wonderment and in fear of what the president has proposed,” Schumer claimed. “The United States will run Venezuela. We have learned through the years when America tries to do regime change and nation building in this way, the American people pay the price in both blood and in dollars.”

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The Democratic leader also claimed the Trump administration didn’t have the authority to carry out the mission. Trump declared during a Saturday press conference on the operation which captured Maduro that the United States was “running” Venezuela, saying senior administration officials, including Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine, would be in charge.