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Unit­ed States Sen­a­tors Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff on Fri­day in­tro­duced a War Pow­ers Act res­o­lu­tion that would block use of US Armed Forces to en­gage in hos­til­i­ties against cer­tain non-state or­ga­ni­za­tions fol­low­ing mul­ti­ple unau­tho­rized mil­i­tary strikes on un­ver­i­fied al­leged drug traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tions in the South­ern Caribbean Sea.

“Pres­i­dent Trump has no le­gal au­thor­i­ty to launch strikes or use mil­i­tary force in the Caribbean or else­where in the West­ern Hemi­sphere,” said Kaine, De­mo­c­rat of Vir­ginia, stat­ing that the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has re­fused to pro­vide the US Con­gress with ba­sic in­for­ma­tion about the mul­ti­ple strikes it has car­ried out, in­clud­ing who was killed, why it was nec­es­sary to put ser­vice­mem­bers’ lives at risk, and why a stan­dard in­ter­dic­tion op­er­a­tion wasn’t con­duct­ed.

“Con­gress sim­ply can­not let it­self be stiff-armed as this ad­min­is­tra­tion con­tin­ues to flout the law,” Paine added. “That’s why we’re in­tro­duc­ing this leg­is­la­tion to re­quire a de­bate and vote on whether the US should be con­duct­ing these strikes with­out con­gres­sion­al ap­proval.”