Democratic and Republican senators on Friday introduced a resolution to block any U.S. military action against Venezuela without congressional approval, aiming to curb President Donald Trump’s increasing pressure on President Nicolás Maduro ’s government.

Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who is sponsoring the war powers resolution with fellow Democrat Adam Schiff of California and Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, said he was responding to the repeated U.S. strikes on boats off Venezuela.

There have been at least five such strikes, which the Trump administration says are part of a campaign against drug traffickers. They have killed at least 27 people.

Kaine noted the U.S. constitutional requirement that only Congress, not the president, authorizes war, except for short-term st

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