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  Support our nonprofit journalism   May 22, 2026 The Trump administration has a tendency to  antagonize  America's neighbors: perpetual threats to  buy, annex, or conquer Greenland ,  illegal strikes  against Caribbean fishing boats, and the  kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro . Throughout it all, Trump’s imperial ambitions have zoned in on one small island: Cuba. “Other presidents have looked at [Cuba] for 50, 60 years, doing something,”  Trump said on Thursday . “And it looks like I’ll be the one that does it...I would be happy to do it.” The US has kept Cuba under a trade embargo since the 1960s. And for about the past four months, America has  blockaded oil tankers  from docking on the island. Two weeks ago, Cuban minister of energy Vicente de la O Levy warned that the island of nearly 11 million people  had run out of oil . As  Reveal’ s Laura Morel reported, Cuba's once-vaunted hospital system is...

  Sen. Adam Schiff 532K subscribers Dec 7, 2025 Today, Senator Schiff joined NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker where he reiterated the unauthorized and illegal boat strikes are dragging the United States closer to war with Venezuela. Schiff called on the administration to publicly release the full video of the attack, emphasizing that his colleagues will call up a War Powers Resolution to force a debate and vote in Congress that would block the use of U.S. forces in hostilities against or within Venezuela if President Trump should follow through on his threat to strike Venezuela on land ‘very soon.’ --- Join the conversation: → https://www.schiff.senate.gov →    / senadamschiff   →    / senadamschiff   →    / senadamschiff