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Top defense hawks demand strike details

The leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee are mounting the strongest congressional pushback to date against the Trump administration’s ongoing lethal strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific.

Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), in two letters released Friday, demanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provide copies of the orders issued for the strikes against alleged drug vessels, as well as legal justification behind them.

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