Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and top Senate Democrats on the Foreign Relations, Intelligence, Armed Services, and Appropriations Committees, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Director of National Intelligence Tusli Gabbard urging them to “immediately brief the full Senate” on military strikes against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
“To date, the Administration has failed to provide the full Senate with the basic information necessary to carry out its oversight responsibilities, including the identities of the groups against which the President has authorized the use of military force,” the senators wrote.
“Nor has it provided information demonstrating the individuals killed were in fact drug traffickers, the types and quantities of drugs destroyed or any justification for why more cost-effective and legally justifiable measures were not pursued, such as interdiction,” they added.
The Defense Department, State Department and Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The letter comes after Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Pentagon carried out another strike at President Trump’s direction on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean that killed four men, bringing the total number of known strikes to more than a dozen.
The Trump administration faced criticism from both parties this week after Democrats were excluded from a classified briefing on the alleged drug vessel strikes on Wednesday.