"Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. This morning we start with the news that president Donald Trump's top Cabinet officials on national security, Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, are due on Capitol Hill to brief members of Congress amid investigations into US military vessel strikes in the Caribbean. The briefing from the defense secretary and secretary of state comes as questions mount over the escalation of military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela."
"On Monday night the US military said it launched a fresh round of deadly strikes on foreign vessels suspected of trafficking narcotics, killing eight people. The US Southern Command posted footage of the strikes on social media on Monday, announcing it had hit three vessels in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking, US Southern Command said in a post on X."
"We have thousands of troops and our largest aircraft carrier in the Caribbean but zero, zero explanation for what Trump is trying to accomplish, said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer."
President Donald Trump's top national security officials, Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, are scheduled to brief Congress amid investigations into US military vessel strikes in the Caribbean. The defense secretary and secretary of state will also brief lawmakers as questions mount over escalation of military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela. Lawmakers have been examining a 2 September attack while assessing the rationale for a broader US military buildup that appears pointed at Venezuela. On Monday night the US military reported strikes on three vessels in the eastern Pacific, killing eight people and posting footage of explosions.
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