President Trump said Wednesday the administration may go to Congress for authorization to strike drug cartels that are smuggling narcotics on land.

“We will hit them very hard when they come in by land. And they haven't experienced that yet, but now we're totally prepared to do that. We'll probably go back to Congress and explain exactly what we're doing when [they] come to the land,” the president said at the White House, sitting alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

Since early September, the U.S. military has been striking alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing at least 32 people.

The campaign is part of the administration’s pressure against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, whom the president and his allies view as an........

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