White House says Venezuela’s future 'dictated' by US as Trump embraces ‘American dominance’
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the U.S. has told Venezuela's interim authorities that their "decisions are going to continue to be dictated by the United States of America."
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the Trump administration, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other members of the president’s national security team are working in "close coordination with the interim authorities, and their decisions are going to continue to be dictated by the United States of America."
"We obviously have maximum leverage over the interim authorities in Venezuela right now. And the president has made it very clear that this is a country … close by the United States that is no longer going to be sending illegal drugs to the United States of America. It's no longer going to be sending and trafficking illegal people and criminal cartels to kill American citizens, as they have in the past. And the president is fully deploying his peace through strength foreign policy agenda."
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