You really have to laugh so you don’t start screaming. The world is a mess, and the people in charge are playing games with entire countries like they are moving pieces on a board game. The latest joke comes from Washington, where **Marco Rubio’s Venezuela policy** is taking center stage. He has a new plan for Venezuela. It isn't about freedom. It isn't about saving people. It is about paperwork. It is about control. And it is about the most humiliating thing you can do to a nation.

Here is the news, stripped of the fancy words. Rubio told the Senate that Venezuela is going to have to submit a **monthly budget to the White House**. Read that again. A "monthly budget." Like a teenager asking his dad for twenty bucks to go to the movies. Venezuela, a country that used to be rich and proud, now has to show its receipts to Uncle Sam every thirty days. If they want to spend money from their own **Venezuela oil revenue**, they have to ask permission first. Rubio sits there and says this with a straight face, acting like this is normal. It isn't normal. It is insane.

The United States is basically saying, "We own your wallet now." We are taking the money Venezuela makes from oil, putting it in a jar, and standing over it with a stick. Rubio says this is to make sure the money goes to the "right" things. But who decides what is right? He does. The White House does. Imagine if another country did that to us. Imagine if China told us we couldn't fix a bridge in Ohio unless we sent them a spreadsheet first. We would lose our minds. But when we do it to someone else, the politicians call it "policy."

Of course, the Democrats are involved in this circus, too. They aren't trying to stop the madness. They are just whining about the details. In the hearing, the Democrats spent their time asking questions about Qatar. Apparently, the money from the oil sales is going to be managed in a **Qatar bank account**. The Democrats are very worried about this. They want to know, "Why Qatar?" and "Is it safe?" and "What are the rules?"

Look at them. They are so focused on the bank account that they ignore the actual crime. They don't care that the US is stripping a country of its dignity. They just want to make sure the paperwork is filed correctly in the Middle East. It is performative nonsense. The Democrats want to look like they are tough on corruption, so they poke holes in the plan. But they agree with the main point. They agree that the US should be the boss of Venezuela. They just want to argue about which bank teller gets to hold the cash.

Qatar managing the money is just the cherry on top of this garbage sundae. Why is a tiny country in the Middle East holding the cash for South American oil sold to the US? Because nothing is simple anymore. Everything has to go through three different middlemen so that everyone gets a taste. It’s a grift. It’s a global shell game. The money moves around the world, and by the time it gets back to the people who actually need it, half of it is probably gone in "fees" and "management costs." Rubio doesn't care. The Democrats don't really care. They just want to argue about the process.

This is what politics has become. It is just a bunch of people in suits arguing over who gets to hold the leash. Rubio wants to be the tough guy. He wants to be the strict father figure who punishes the bad kids in Venezuela. He loves the idea of reviewing their budget. It makes him feel powerful. He gets to look at a list of expenses and say, "No, you can't buy medicine today, you didn't fill out form 12-B correctly."

Meanwhile, the Democrats are the annoying neighbors who peek over the fence and say, "Are you sure you should use that bank?" Neither side actually cares about the result. Neither side cares that this plan turns a sovereign nation into a colony. They are all just playing their roles. The Right wants to dominate. The Left wants to bureaucratize. And in the middle, regular people suffer.

The arrogance is staggering. The idea that bureaucrats in Washington—the same people who can't even balance our own budget—are going to manage Venezuela's monthly spending is a bad joke. We are thirty-four trillion dollars in debt. We can't pave our own roads. Our trains fall off the tracks. But Rubio thinks we have the right to tell another country how to spend its grocery money. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. This isn't foreign policy. It is just bullying with a calculator.

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### References & Fact-Check To ensure transparency and E-E-A-T compliance, we verify the core events behind this commentary against authoritative sources: * **Original Report:** [Rubio Says Venezuela Will Submit Monthly Budget to White House (The New York Times)](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/politics/rubio-hearing-venezuela.html) * **Key Fact:** Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed during a Senate hearing that Venezuela must submit monthly budget requests to the US to access oil revenue held in accounts in Qatar.