“I think it needs more clarification,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of Senate GOP leadership, told reporters on Monday. “I think the interpretation of ‘run’ has been pretty broad, and I think they’re trying to, in my opinion, trying to narrow it down.”Advertisement“It’s all unknowable. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said that properly administering Venezuela would require committing 100,000 U.S. troops on the ground, a policy he did not support. In an interview with NBC News on Monday, Trump suggested the U.S. oil industry would take over Venezuela’s oil production with the financial support of the U.S. government. Democrats warned that the Trump administration was repeating the steps of failed U.S. interventions abroad, including in the Middle East, which Trump himself had campaigned against.

Source: Huffington Post January 06, 2026 02:41 UTC