POTUS OFFICIALLY notified Speaker NP the other day that we sent troops to Congo – it was on the POTUS Press Twitter. I'll see if I can find again posted it when it happened.
Trump: U.S. sent troops for possible ‘violent’ Congo vote protests
Congo faces what could be its first democratic, peaceful transfer of power since independence from Belgium in 1960.
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/world/trump-us-sent-troops-for-possible-violent-congo-vote-protests/71-774af9e0-4fd5-432d-9785-f05a5418f381