Do we know which branch(es) of the military were involved? Because I recently learned POTUS doesn’t need Congressional approval to send the marines.

From the article:

“This is not the kind of mission that you can do congressional notification on. It was a trigger-based mission in which conditions had to be met night after night,” Rubio said later at a Mar-a-Lago news conference. “Remember, at the end of day, at its core, this was an arrest of two indicted fugitives of American justice, and the Department of War supported the Department of Justice in that job. Now there are broader policy implications here, but it’s just not the kind of mission that you can pre-notify because it endangers the mission,” he said.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton affirmed after discussion with Rubio, “congress doesn’t need to be notified ever time the executive branch is making an arrest. And that’s exactly what happened this morning in Venezuela, and now Maduro is going to come to the United States, and he’s going to face justice.”

This is an important distinction. The DEA and DOJ carried out an arrest of an indicted drug trafficker.

This was, as Rubio noted, a law enforcement operation to capture fugitives. The military component was in support of that operation, nothing more. The DOJ had the lead; the DEA was the enforcement mechanism, and the military were in tactical support.

Official US Government articles relating to the charges against Maduro:

[DOJ] Nicolás Maduro Moros and 14 Current and Former Venezuelan Officials Charged with Narco-Terrorism, Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Criminal Charges (Thursday March 26, 2020)

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/nicol-s-maduro-moros-and-14-current-and-former-venezuelan-officials-charged-narco-terrorism

[DOJ] Documents Related to the March 26, 2020 Press Conference: Criminal Charges Against the Former Maduro Regime

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/documents-related-march-26-2020-press-conference

[DOS] Reward Offer Increase of Up to $50 Million for Information Leading to Arrest and/or Conviction of Nicolás Maduro (Marco Rubio, August 7, 2025)

https://www.state.gov/reward-offer-increase-of-up-to-50-million-for-information-leading-to-arrest-and-or-conviction-of-nicolas-maduro

[DOS] Wanted: Nicolás Maduro Moros (August 7, 2025)

https://www.state.gov/nicolas-maduro-moros

Panama 1989.... Complaints from congress... ZERO.

Waaahhhhttt?! You mean the average Democrat actually doesn't have an idea of what they talk about?!