US Marines conduct live fire drills aboard USS Iwo Jima in the Caribbean Sea, 17 September 2025 – Public Domain

Summary: National Single Payer, a national, grassroots organization that believes health care is a human right, must be free from profit, and will be achieved through national legislation, opposes the use of tax-payer dollars to fund a military campaign targeting Venezuela and firmly stands against all unilateral coercive measures that cause hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, mostly children’s, every year in 40 countries. We call on the nation to demand our government use our resources to support life and wellbeing at home and abroad.

Tag headlines: U.S. militarism, unilateral coercive measures, Venezuela, national single payer free from profit health care system

Plans for military actions against Venezuela:

National Single Payer condemns the unilateral, unprovoked build-up of military troops and warships in the Caribbean as the Trump administration considers a broad military campaign against Venezuela. Through an undeclared war, the military has already carried out attacks destroying 26 vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since September, killing almost 100 civilians. The U.S. is spending $18 million per day to deploy U.S. navy warships under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking. These actions place U.S. service members and civilians in danger when there is limited evidence to support significant Venezuelan participation in illegal drug trade.

Instead of using our resources to support life and wellbeing, the President has instead chosen to put U.S. service members, civilians, and the world in immediate danger. The use of our collective tax-payer resources to plan unauthorized, unprovoked military strikes on Venezuela violates domestic law (the War Powers Resolution of the Constitution) and international law ( UN Charter........

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