By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOEY CAPPELLETTI, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s increasing efforts to exclude Democrats from national security briefings could endanger troops and keep important information from the public, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee warned Thursday.

“I don’t know how you even begin to rebuild trust,” Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said after Democrats were not invited to a briefing this week on U.S. military strikes against boats alleged to be carrying drugs. “This is against every norm of how national security policy has worked.”

Every senator should be read in, Warner said, and “when you politicize decision making about putting service members in harm’s way, you make them less safe.”

Lawmakers in both parties have had

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