The Trump administration does not believe the strikes the military has conducted targeting alleged drug smugglers in the Western Hemisphere meet the threshold to be regulated by a decades-old law designed to enshrine Congress’s role in declaring war.

Any U.S. president needs approval from Congress for sustained military action following the passage of the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which President Richard Nixon opposed toward the end of the Vietnam War .

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