‘They lied to our face’: Democrats decry Trump’s military raid on Venezuela

<p>Lawmakers call US intervention and capture of Maduro ‘wildly illegal’ and say it lacked congressional approval</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/04/nicolas-maduro-jailed-us-attack-venezuela-donald-trump-reaction-latest-news-updates-live">Trump’s Venezuela intervention: latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats">Democratic</a> leaders responded with fury on Sunday to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a>’s military intervention in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/venezuela">Venezuela</a>, slamming it as an illegal act carried out in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/04/trump-congress-venezuela-attack">the absence</a> of required congressional approval that would lead to disaster for the American people.</p><p>Top Democrats took to the Sunday TV political talk shows to express their dismay at the lack of any prior notification of lawmakers about the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/explosions-reported-venezuela-caracas">audacious military raid</a> 24 hours earlier.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/04/democrats-trump-white-house-venezuela">Continue reading...</a>