
Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar also backed the Trump administration's deployment of warships off the Venezuelan coast, supporting its stated goal of escalating its fight against cartels in Latin America.
"Cartels are poisoning our streets with fentanyl. Marxists are unleashing chaos to destabilize our country. Trump gets it. It's time to crush the cartels, defend the hemisphere and protect our country," the lawmaker said in a social media post.