With 14 people killed in the Caribbean in recent days by US forces at the direction of President Donald Trump , two Democratic senators on Friday moved to stop the Trump administration from continuing military strikes against boats that it claims are involved in drug trafficking.

Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced a joint resolution calling for the US to stop engaging in military hostilities that have not been authorized by Congress, days after Trump announced that US forces had killed three people whom the president claimed were part of “extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels” based in Venezuela.

That strike followed the killing of 11 people aboard another boat in the Caribbean earlier this month, which US officials later acknowledged had t

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