November 30, 2025
Bipartisan lawmakers demand answers after allegations of unlawful killings.
On Saturday, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the committee’s ranking member, announced that they will conduct “vigorous oversight” of the military operations ordered by President Donald Trump in the Caribbean Sea.
“The Committee is aware of recent news reports — and the Department of Defense’s initial response — regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” they said in a statement.
“The Committee has directed inquiries to the Department, and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances,” Wicker and Reed added.
On Saturday, House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Ranking Member Adam Smith, D-Wash., also spoke out about U.S. Southern Command’s (SOUTHCOM) actions in the Caribbean.
“This committee is committed to providing rigorous oversight of the Department of Defense’s military operations in the Caribbean. We take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.”
Hegseth Ordered a Second Strike to Kill Caribbean Boat Survivors
That’s murder.
Maybe none of his actions are about stopping drug flow! pic.twitter.com/GePLdAqMKG
— Luna 🇺🇸 (@LunaForTruth) November 29, 2025
Their statements came after media outlets reported that U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of all those involved in the first attack on an alleged narcotrafficking boat on Sept. 2, which triggered a second strike to finish off survivors in the water.
Under U.S. congressional procedures, Hegseth would be required to appear before those committees to explain the alleged attack, which Democratic lawmakers have described as a “war crime.”
On Saturday, U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said that “President Trump’s reckless actions toward Venezuela are pushing the United States closer and closer to another costly foreign war. According to our Constitution, Congress has the sole authority to declare war — not the president — and Congress has not authorized the use of military force against Venezuela,” he said.
Americans “are tired of endless foreign wars that take the lives of countless U.S. service members and drain valuable resources. This is not an America First policy. We need Republicans and Democrats in Congress to come together to restore to the people the power to declare war,” Schumer said.
Facing low public approval for war on #Venezuela, #US provacateurs pivot from the fabricated cartel storyline.
Will domestic and international pressure make US President #Trump turn away from gunboat diplomacy? Or is a ground invasion imminent? pic.twitter.com/mAR352u0YV— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) November 28, 2025
teleSUR/ JF
Sources: Newsmax – X – teleSUR
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