Like many of you, I'm outraged that Donald Trump started an illegal war with Venezuela—especially when we have so many problems to address here at home.
With the cost of living soaring thanks to his disastrous economic policies, the president should be focused on America, not Venezuela. Instead, he's bragging about seizing oil, claiming the United States is ‘running the country,’ and leaving the door wide open to more troops and strikes—all without congressional authorization.
These reckless actions are unconstitutional and illegal, and Congress has a responsibility to stop this before it spirals into another disastrous and costly quagmire that risks American soldiers' lives and wastes taxpayer dollars, just to enrich Republicans' billionaire donors in Big Oil.
That's why, this week, I reintroduced my bipartisan War Powers Resolution to rein in this rogue administration and reassert Congress' authority on matters of war and peace.
Members of Congress who voted against stopping this escalation the first time should think carefully about whether they want their names forever attached to what may well become a massive strategic blunder and a foreign policy nightmare that lingers on for decades to come. Now is the moment to draw the line.
