WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked an effort by Democrats, joined by two GOP senators, to stop President Donald Trump from launching additional military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea suspected of carrying drugs.

The U.S. military has attacked at least four vessels coming from Venezuela since early September, killing more than 20 people in what the Trump administration describes as a “non-international armed conflict” against “narco-terrorists.” Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined all but one Democrat in voting to invoke the War Powers Resolution of 1973, a Vietnam War-era law meant to rein in a president’s ability to launch attacks.

Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, said in an interview that although he shares Trump’s co

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