All but two G.O.P. senators voted against a resolution to stop the president from expanding his military campaign against drug traffickers to include land targets inside Venezuela.
The classified meeting did not relieve mounting unease among lawmakers over President Trump’s expanding campaign of lethal strikes against drug cartels.
President Trump’s declaration that the closure had hurt his party on Tuesday appeared to have stiffened Democrats’ resolve and put at least a temporary damper on talks to end the crisis.
The Republican chairman and senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee said on Friday that the Pentagon had not handed over information about the attacks despite repeated requests.
Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Senator Jack Reed, the panel’s senior Democrat, at a February meeting of the committee.
Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, at the Capitol on Thursday. The senator said the Trump administration was ignoring “all the checks and balances” in its military campaign.
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