Venezuela Resolution Held Up Over Concerns About Military Action
- Democrats seek to avoid giving Trump endorsement to intervene
- Measure would recognize assembly leader as rightful president
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A resolution recognizing Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela is stalled in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Democrats seek to avoid giving President Donald Trump an endorsement for military intervention in the strife-torn country.
Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat and the ranking member on the committee, said he was concerned about language in the resolution that “might be interpreted to be an authorization of the use of military force or to be used by the administration as such.”