Rubio framed this as a DOJ-led law-enforcement action with DoD support and said it wasn’t a mission suitable for advance congressional notification (members were told afterward).
Implication: the administration is signaling a legal theory meant to operate outside normal war-powers expectations.
Trump also said the U.S. would be reimbursed from Venezuela’s oil revenues while describing U.S. firms spending billions on oil infrastructure.
Implication: oil cashflow is part of the stated operational logic, not just background context.
And AP describes “Operation Absolute Resolve” as months in planning with 150+ aircraft from ~20 bases.
Implication: that scale makes the authority question unavoidable.
Rubio framed this as a DOJ-led law-enforcement action with DoD support and said it wasn’t a mission suitable for advance congressional notification (members were told afterward).
Implication: the administration is signaling a legal theory meant to operate outside normal war-powers expectations.
Trump also said the U.S. would be reimbursed from Venezuela’s oil revenues while describing U.S. firms spending billions on oil infrastructure.
Implication: oil cashflow is part of the stated operational logic, not just background context.
And AP describes “Operation Absolute Resolve” as months in planning with 150+ aircraft from ~20 bases.
Implication: that scale makes the authority question unavoidable.