Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is calling on Americans to speak out against the Trump administration’s expanding role in Venezuela, warning that U.S. leadership should prioritize domestic challenges over foreign regime change efforts.
Speaking on CNN’s The Source on her final day in Congress, Greene urged public resistance to Washington’s actions following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
“I really hope to see the American people push back and say, ‘Let’s focus on the United States of America, Mr. President,’ because that’s what the American people deserve,” Greene told host Kaitlan Collins.
Her comments come as uncertainty grows over how deeply the United States plans to involve itself in governing Venezuela during a transitional period. President Trump said Saturday that his administration would temporarily oversee the country to ensure stability while managing a leadership change.
The president stated that the United States will “run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” adding that American oil companies would take control of Venezuela’s petroleum reserves, the largest in the world.
“We don’t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years,” Trump said.
However, senior administration officials have offered mixed signals on what U.S. control would look like in practice. Secretary of State Marco Rubio downplayed the notion of Washington running Venezuela’s daily affairs, emphasizing security and enforcement priorities instead.
“All of the problems we had when Maduro was there, we still have those problems in terms of them needing to be addressed,” Rubio told NBC News on Sunday. “We are going to give people an opportunity to address those challenges and those problems.”
Rubio said the administration’s immediate focus is cutting off drug trafficking, gang activity, and sanctioned oil exports flowing out of Venezuela.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers from both parties said they left a classified briefing with more questions than answers about the long-term strategy.
“There’s more questions, ultimately about how it resolves, probably, than answers at the moment, but that’s to be expected,” House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana told reporters.
Greene acknowledged Maduro as a “bad guy” and said she hopes Venezuelans are able to establish a “good and stable government.” Still, she argued that the responsibility for shaping Venezuela’s future should rest with its people, not U.S. officials.
She stressed that the administration should remain focused on domestic priorities, including lowering health care costs and addressing the national debt.
”I would like to see a continued focus on domestic policy that helps the American people,” Greene said. “That’s the country that they are supposed to be running.”
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