{"id":90945,"date":"2026-01-06T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90945\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:57:07","slug":"maduro-held-in-nyc-jail-as-trump-administration-plans-for-venezuelas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90945\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro held in NYC jail as Trump administration plans for Venezuela&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Trump administration officials briefed leading members of Congress on the Venezuela operation on Monday, and lawmakers&#8217; reactions fell along familiar partisan lines.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters the classified briefing, which included Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, &#8220;posed far more questions than it ever answered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their plan for the U.S. running Venezuela is vague, based on wishful thinking and unsatisfying,&#8221; the New York Democrat said, adding that it&#8217;s unclear if similar operations will be tried in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, House Speaker Mike Johnson said the operation was a &#8220;decisive and justified action,&#8221; adding that Maduro led a &#8220;criminal organization masquerading as a government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, he has learned what accountability looks like,&#8221; the Louisiana Republican added.<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats have argued the operation wasn&#8217;t legal because it lacked congressional approval. Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/2008314408120750435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> he will push for a vote to block further military action in Venezuela. And Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told reporters: &#8220;It seems at every turn, Donald Trump is trying to figure out how he avoids Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have largely defended the president. Johnson argued the administration acted within its authority because &#8220;we are not at war&#8221; and &#8220;we are not occupying that country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told reporters he doesn&#8217;t believe the operation needed congressional approval, saying it was limited in scope and &#8220;done before breakfast.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Trump administration officials briefed leading members of Congress on the Venezuela operation on Monday, and lawmakers&#8217; reactions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,9,15862,56,63,65,64,655,7318],"class_list":{"0":"post-90945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-nicolas-maduro","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-trump-administration","16":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}