""Thank God we have a Secretary of State who knows his facts AND has the patience of Job,""
""This is a wartime act...Are we at war with Venezuela?""
""When it comes to narco-trafficking gangs and criminal gangs, there's no doubt about the fact that we're confronting them in a war-like setting,""
""Well, that was a mechanism to remove people from our country that prevent grave danger,""
Vice President JD Vance briefly left social media after drawing criticism for comparing Purple Heart veteran Tammy Duckworth to Forrest Gump. Senator Duckworth and other Democrats pushed back strongly. Secretary of State Marco Rubio faced a contentious hearing where Duckworth asked whether the president should rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act, invoked over the Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua. Rubio described the group as a dangerous gang and defended the statute as a mechanism to remove people who prevent grave danger. Rubio framed narco-trafficking and criminal gangs as being confronted in a war-like setting and said the president retains commander-in-chief authority that could involve troops or air power.
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