McMorrow Calls to End Costly Foreign Wars While Rogers Stands by Trump’s Move to “Run” Venezuela

MICHIGAN –– Today, in response to news that President Trump had abandoned a core campaign promise and MAGA rallying cry to “stop the wars” and focus on “America first,” Republican candidate for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat, Mike Rogers defended Trump’s decision to enter a regime change war in Venezuela. Trump also said that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela until further notice.

Meanwhile, U.S. Senate candidate and Michigan Senate Majority Whip Mallory McMorrow released a statement decrying Trump’s move to risk sliding into another costly war abroad while families struggle at home:

“I’m not going to start a war,’ Trump said when he won re-election. ‘I’m going to stop the wars.’ Americans have made themselves crystal clear: they don’t want to risk sliding into another costly war abroad. Families are struggling to buy groceries. People are skipping doctor's visits because they can't pay for healthcare.” said McMorrow. 

“To be clear, Maduro is a tyrant who has caused great harm to Venezuelans and Americans. 

But this administration knew Americans wouldn’t approve. So they went around their own citizens, violating the Constitution and the conversation Americans not only deserve – but have a Constitutional right to – before any decision of this magnitude. 

Where does this go from here? Will Maduro simply be replaced by another dictator? Will Venezuela go the way of other regime change operations and break down into violence? And will they deploy American troops – our sons and daughters? Not only in Venezuela, but to anywhere around the world that this administration deems necessary with or without the input of the American people? To what end?

Congress has a Constitutional role for a reason. It’s time that our federal elected officials take that role back and for this President to respect it.”

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