Author: Maggie Astor / Source: New York Times

Rachel Mummey for The New York Times
You don’t often see this in Washington: some of the most liberal candidates in the 2020 presidential field lining up with President Trump on foreign policy.
What happened
Every declared presidential candidate in the Senate, and three other senators who are considering running, voted on Tuesday against a bill that, among other things, condemns Mr. Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan and Syria. (You can read more about the legislation here.)
The senators in question are:
• Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, all declared candidates.
• Sherrod Brown, Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders, who are eyeing the race.
Senator Amy Klobuchar, another Democrat who is widely expected to run for president, voted for the bill, as did Senator Michael Bennet, who is considering a run.
The measure passed the Senate, 77 to 23, and now goes to the House.
The bill has several parts, some controversial and some not, and the senators voting no were not necessarily doing so solely because of troop withdrawals. Mr. Brown, for instance, said he was concerned about the constitutionality of the bill’s other contentious provision, which would let state and local governments…
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