Furious Democrats float Trump impeachment, 25th Amendment over "insane" Venezuela attack [View all]

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Source: msn/Axios

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Amid Democrats' fury over the Trump administration's unilateral strike on Venezuela and capture of President Nicholás Maduro, some lawmakers went so far as to call for President Trump's removal from office.

Why it matters: The Venezuela strike has escalated already-boiling tensions between Trump and congressional Democrats, who are furious about Congress being left in the dark.

"I had absolutely no briefing or heads up," House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Greg Meeks (D-N.Y.) fumed to Axios. "I received all information from the news media at this point."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), in a joint statement, demanded briefings for their members "early next week."

Driving the news: U.S. forces extradited Maduro and his wife to the U.S. in an operation early Saturday morning that involved airstrikes on several military sites in Venezuela's capital, Caracas.

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