1. United States
2. Maine
3. Letter

You were elected to represent the people, not to function as a shield for party leaders or the president. When the executive branch moves toward broader military and hemispheric intervention, your duty is to deliberate, question, and restrain where necessary. President Trump campaigned on ending wars and rejecting new ones, but he has since embraced what multiple outlets and analysts are calling a revived Monroe Doctrine, or the “Donroe Doctrine,” centered on reasserting U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere. Reporting describes this approach as aiming to “restore American preeminence” in the region and to deny outside powers influence over strategically important countries and assets. That is not the same as a promise of peace, and it is not what many voters understood when they heard a message of “no new wars”. Congress should be clear-eyed about what this means. A foreign policy built around hemispheric dominance, military posture, and intervention risks pulling the nation toward conflicts the public did not ask for and does not want. Congress cannot pretend that party loyalty is identical to loyalty to the people who sent its members to Washington. Your oath is to the Constitution and your constituents. The American people deserve representatives who defend the public interest, preserve constitutional checks, and refuse to confuse partisan obedience with democratic responsibility. If the administration is steering toward a new doctrine of control in the hemisphere, Congress must answer on behalf of the people, not the party.