Today’s notice: Reading the tea leaves on Trump’s latest comments re: Venezuela. Congress is happy to pass the buck for now. A victory for vaccine skeptics. And: Did Marco Rubio change — or has everyone else?
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A very open question. “I don’t know exactly what he means by that,” Sen. Bill Cassidy told NOTUS’ Hill team Monday of Donald Trump’s repeated pledge that the United States will run Venezuela for the time being.
A lot of Republicans were also unsure. “Well, we’re gonna try and get more information about that,” John Thune told CNN.
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Official White House briefings have begun, first with top Hill officials yesterday and later today with Republican lawmakers at the (Trump-)Kennedy Center. Thune got one of the briefings and told reporters afterward it was “a very robust discussion about the operation, and, I think, about the path forward,” but did not elaborate on what that meant.