Top officials brief US Congress on Venezuela drug boat strikes

Lawmakers from both parties had slammed the Pentagon as recently as Tuesday for not briefing them on national security issues and said at times top defence officials appeared to be undermining Trump’s own policies, in a rare bipartisan show of frustration with the administration.

The Pentagon, which Trump has renamed the Department of War, on Wednesday denied accusations that its top policy official, Elbridge Colby, was not fully briefing Congress on important national security issues.

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle and Bo Erickson; Editing by Daniel Wallis)