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John Fetterman Sen. John Fetterman Backs Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Oil Blockade and Caribbean Strikes Washington — Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has become the first Democratic senator to publicly support President Donald Trump’s plan to impose a total blockade on Venezuelan oil tankers, breaking with much of his party amid growing debate over the administration’s expanding use of military force in the drug war. Fetterman also defended the Trump administration’s unilateral strikes against suspected cartel-linked vessels in the Caribbean, comparing them to drone operations carried out under former President Barack Obama. “I think what’s happening right now is consistent,” Fetterman said Tuesday in an interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo . “It’s not unreasonable to compare that to what President Obama was doing during his presidency. He was using drone hits, and he took out thousands of terrorists. And if I was in the Senate at that time, I would have supported those as well.” ...