Senior US officials sought to ease Republican fears of protracted involvement in Venezuela as Democrats blasted the White House for lacking a strategy after toppling the country’s leader.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio and other senior officials, including defence secretary Pete Hegseth, held a classified briefing that lasted more than two hours with top lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the operation, which has opened a new chapter of US interventionism in the western hemisphere.
Following the military operation this weekend to capture Nicolás Maduro and transport him to the US to face trial, Donald Trump has pledged that officials in Washington would now “run” and be “in charge” of the country, without elaborating on how they would do that.