Sobers dismisses concerns over possible US congressional scrutiny

For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers has dis­missed con­cerns that Trinidad and To­ba­go could face scruti­ny from the Unit­ed States Con­gress over its sup­port for the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion and its mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean.

The is­sue comes amid a shift­ing po­lit­i­cal land­scape in Wash­ing­ton fol­low­ing the Re­pub­li­can Par­ty’s loss­es in the US midterm elec­tions.

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The US Sen­ate and House Armed Ser­vices Com­mit­tees are con­duct­ing bi­par­ti­san in­quiries in­to US mil­i­tary strikes on sus­pect­ed drug-traf­fick­ing ves­sels in the Caribbean. The in­quiries in­clude re­ports that a fol­low-up at­tack killed two sur­vivors of an ini­tial strike.