Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to explain President Donald Trump's policy toward Venezuela following the U.S. military raid that ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro, at the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
"And this is not new to this president. Multiple presidents have complained about it. I think this president just complains about it louder than other presidents," the secretary added.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Delcy Rodríguez attend Maduro’s second-term swearing-in ceremony at Congress in Caracas on May 24, 2018. (Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images)
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Rubio also said Wednesday that, "We are certainly better off today in Venezuela than we were four weeks ago."
"I'm not here to claim to you this is going to be easy or simple," Rubio told lawmakers. "I am saying that in three and a half, almost four weeks, we are much further along on this project than we thought we would be, given the complexities of it going into it, and I recognize that it won't be easy. I mean, look, at the end of the day we are dealing with people over there that have spent most of their lives living in a gangster paradise."
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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