By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers may withhold a quarter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget if he does not provide unedited videos of military strikes on boats in the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific, the latest effort to obtain more information about President Donald Trump’s campaign against Venezuela.

The Senate and House of Representatives Armed Services committees included the travel budget provision in the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a massive defense policy bill released on Sunday night and likely to become law by the end of the year.

The Department of Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the provision.

Members of Congress, including some of Trump’s fellow Republicans, have been deman

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