Rand Paul Backs Effort to Block Military Strikes on Drug Boats

Senator Rand Paul said he plans to cosponsor a measure that would prevent the Trump administration from conducting military strikes against suspected drug boats, adding to his condemnation of recent deadly attacks on alleged narco-traffickers in the Caribbean.

“We can’t have a policy where we just blow up ships where we don’t even know the people’s names,” the Kentucky Republican said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s Balance of Power on Tuesday. “It can’t be the policy for drug interdiction, either in the country or outside the country.”