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Members of the US Congress on Saturday demanded emergency legislative action to prevent the Trump administration from taking further military action in Venezuela after the president threatened a “second wave” of attacks and said the US will control the South American country’s government indefinitely.

Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), said that “Congress should vote immediately on a War Powers Resolution to stop” President Donald Trump, whose administration has for months unlawfully bombed boats in international waters and threatened a direct military assault on Venezuela without lawmakers’ approval.

A number of prominent MAGA voices came out against President Donald Trump Saturday over his administration’s unprecedented attack on Venezuela, including one MAGA lawmaker who argued the attack had left “most Americans enraged.”

“Americans’ disgust with our own government’s never-ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it and both parties, Republicans and Democrats, always keep the Washington military machine funded and going,” wrote Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) in a social media post on X. “This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end. Boy were we wrong.”

President Donald Trump was ridiculed Saturday after critics said he appeared to doze off during a press conference about the United States’ unprecedented attack on Venezuela and capturing of its president.

Held at Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump’s eyes appeared to shut for extended periods of time while Gen. Dan Caine, Trump’s chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was providing new details about the attack on Venezuela.

Following the unprecedented U.S. attack Saturday morning on Venezuela and subsequent capture of its president, President Donald Trump joked that he and other administration officials deserved the $50 million reward that his own Justice Department offered for information leading to the Venezuelan president’s arrest.

“He is a fugitive of American justice with a $50 million reward, which I guess we saved $50 million,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a press conference in Florida, speaking of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.

President Donald Trump made the stunning announcement Saturday that the United States would take control of Venezuela following the attack and capture of its president earlier Saturday morning until a transfer of power can be facilitated.

“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said, speaking during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

President Donald Trump shared a stunning photograph Saturday of what appears to be Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima following his capture by American forces earlier Saturday morning.

" Nicolas Maduro on board the USS Iwo Jima," Trump wrote bluntly on his social media platform Truth Social Saturday, alongside an image of Maduro.

In a multi-post attack aimed at the Donald Trump administration, Rep Sean Casten (D-Il) pointed out that the attacks on Venezuela, including an invasion of the country in the wee hours of Saturday, put staffers and military officials alike at legal risk.

In an expansive 14-post tirade on Blue Sky, the Illinois Democrats started off by writing, “The legal justification the WH gave us for attacking Venezuelan boats in int’l waters without Congressional approval was weak, and exposes the WH and military staff to domestic and international criminal prosecution. They have not even sought to justify strikes within Venezuela,” before adding, “Their justification - dutifully repeated by every sycophantic member of the House GOP was that some drugs kill Americans so any international actor who sells or traffics drugs is engaged in war against America. You can drive a bus through that logic, as I noted last month."

President Donald Trump made the stunning claim Saturday just hours after his administration’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro that American oil companies would be “very much involved” in the nation’s oil industry moving forward.

The Trump administration carried out an unprecedented attack Saturday morning on Venezuela that resulted in the capture of its president, who has since been extradited to New York to face trial on drug-trafficking charges. Trump phoned in to Fox News hours after the attack, and was asked what he saw as the future of Venezuela’s oil industry, which manages the single-largest oil reserves on earth.

Hours after Donald Trump announced that he had invaded Venezuela and successfully nabbed President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) went on MS NOW and hammered the president for breaking the law once again.

At the same time, the president was calling into Fox News to boast about his dubious accomplishment –– while also admitting he had no idea what comes next for the invaded country — the Vermont Democrat started her interview off by exclaiming, “I’m angry.”