Sunday, January 4, 2026–5:51 p.m.
-Staff reports-
14th District Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Georgia U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock have both released statements regarding the Trump Administration’s military intervention in Venezuela.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces had carried out “a large-scale strike against Venezuela” to capture the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro. He also announced that “we are going to run the country now” until a “proper transition” can take place.
Greene, whose last day in Congress is on Monday, released the following statement on he X account:
“I’ve served on the Homeland Security Committee for the past three years. I’m 100% for strong, safe secure borders and stopping narco terrorists and cartels from trafficking deadly drugs and human trafficking into America.
Fentanyl is responsible for over 70% of U.S. drug overdose deaths, and fentanyl comes from Mexican cartels made with chemical precursors from China and trafficked across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mexican cartels are primarily and overwhelmingly responsible for killing Americans with deadly drugs.
If U.S. military action and regime change in Venezuela was really about saving American lives from deadly drugs, then why hasn’t the Trump admin taken action against Mexican cartels?
And if prosecuting narco terrorists is a high priority, then why did President Trump pardon the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted and sentenced for 45 years for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into America? Ironically, cocaine is the same drug that Venezuela primarily traffics into the U.S.
The next obvious observation is that by removing Maduro this is a clear move for control over Venezuelan oil supplies that will ensure stability for the next obvious regime change war in Iran.
And of course, why is it ok for America to militarily invade, bomb, and arrest a foreign leader but Russia is evil for invading Ukraine, and China is bad for aggression against Taiwan? Is it only ok if we do it? (I’m not endorsing Russia or China)
Regime change, funding foreign wars, and Americans’ tax dollars being consistently funneled to foreign causes, foreigners both at home and abroad, and foreign governments, while Americans are consistently facing increasing cost of living, housing, and healthcare, and learn about scams and fraud of their tax dollars, is what has most Americans enraged. Especially the younger generations. Boomers and half of Gen X will cheer on neocon wars and talking points, but the other half of Gen X and the majority on down see through it and hate it.
Americans’ disgust with our own government’s never-ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it, and both parties, Republicans and Democrats, always keep the Washington military machine funded and going.
This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end.
Boy, were we wrong.
As the baby boomers slip away both in votes and power, the electoral future will be decided for candidates that focus on American economic populism and promise prosperity for Americans only.
As of right now, neither party is offering the solution.”
Georgia U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock also released a statement. It read:
“Americans do not want U.S. troops involved in yet another endless war or their government running another government. Yet, that is what Donald Trump, who, as a candidate, promised to get us out of foreign wars, has announced. “We will run” Venezuela. We have seen that awful movie before.
“To be sure, Nicolás Maduro is a dictator involved in the death-dealing international drug business. But there are many such bad actors around the world. In fact, one who trafficked hundreds of tons of illegal drugs into the United States was recently pardoned by Donald Trump without any good explanation.
“The recent attack on a sovereign nation in our own hemisphere is also without a good explanation. In fact, this huge escalation with no clear strategy risks bringing more violence and instability to a nation of 28 million people, potentially causing more drug trafficking and more migration to the United States. This is another broken promise by an unfocused President who is more concerned with foreign oil and regime change than solving Americans’ most pressing economic challenges. Americans want to know who is actually fighting for them?
“As the voice of a large military state, I am relieved that no service members were killed and I am praying for the injured service members. The Trump Administration owes the American people answers justifying this attack and explaining how the United States will “run” Venezuela. It’s time for an increasingly feckless Congress to finally act and put this reckless President in check.”
