Secretary of State Marco Rubio will sit for testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning to discuss the Trump Administration’s policy on Venezuela.
This is Rubio’s first public testimony since the Trump Administration’s arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro earlier this month.
Trump sent the military into Venezuela guns a blazing earlier this month, and Maduro is now in a New York prison awaiting trial on charges of narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and Destructive Devices against the United States. No American military members were killed in the daring, middle-of-the-night operation.
After Maduro’s arrest in Caracas, Trump posted the following video of the strikes, which targeted at least four sites around Caracas, Venezuela. No US troops were killed in the operation.
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Meanwhile, strikes on drug boats operated by designated drug-trafficking terrorist organizations have continued. As The Gateway Pundit reported last week, US forces executed strikes against a 36th drug boat in the Eastern Pacific. It was also the first known strike since Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro was captured on January 3, 2026.
At least 117 “narco-terrorists” have been killed in these strikes since the operations began on September 2, 2025.
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Fox reports:
Rubio’s return to the Hill, an increasingly frequent occurrence in recent months, comes after he, President Donald Trump, administration officials and Senate Republican leadership successfully killed a bipartisan push to rein in the president’s war authorities in Venezuela.
His scheduled appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday at 10 a.m. comes just weeks after he helped to convince two lawmakers, Sens. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., to flip their votes and back the administration.
They were convinced by Rubio and the administration that no further military action would take place, and that if it were, President Donald Trump would come to Congress first.
Young said at the time that the effort, spurred by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., was ultimately just a messaging exercise that never would have survived in the House, nor evaded a veto from Trump.
“I had to accept that this was all a communications exercise,” Young said. “I think we [used] this moment to shine a bright light on Congress’ shortcomings as it relates to war powers in recent history.”
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 am ET.
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