Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) called Trump’s plan to run Venezuela “truly insane” and a “disaster.” Referring to a Constitutional mechanism that allows the Cabinet to remove a president, he told Axios: “We are in 25th Amendment territory now.” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) called Maduro an “illegitimate leader” but questioned the Trump administration’s reliance on allegations of drug trafficking as a justification of force and said the administration had not proven Maduro represented an urgent threat to the United States. “If the President grounds his actions on the basis of drug trafficking charges, it is entirely hypocritical in light of his recent pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was responsible for bringing more than 400 tons of cocaine in the United States in order to ‘shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,’” Pelosi said in a statement.
Author: Mary Chastain
Published at: 2026-01-05 22:00:02
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