Jack Reed: “So you could have essentially a system in which some are regulated and some are not.”

President Trump has been explicit about his desire to extract Venezuela's oil," Reed said in a statement.

A blatant abuse of power and taxpayer dollars.

President Trump’s effort to turn the U.S. military into an investor in Venezuelan oil is a blatant abuse of power and taxpayer dollars.

When he unilaterally launched this war, Trump promised he would destroy Iran's nuclear program, eliminate its missile and drone arsenal, dismantle its defense industrial base, wipe out its proxy networks, and topple the regime in a matter…