Leaders on the Senate Intelligence Committee are expecting to receive a bipartisan briefing this week about the deadly U.S. strike on a drug vessel off the shore of Venezuela, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Lawmakers want more information from the White House on what Trump officials have indicated is just the start of a broader military campaign.

🔦 Democrats were left in the dark on the operation, multiple sources told Axios, and they want answers on the legal basis for the strike. • Their leaders raised similar concerns following President Trump's airstrikes on Iran in June. • U.S. officials said the attack on the ship — which killed 11 members of the Tren de Aragua cartel, according to Trump — targeted drug trafficking. But it's threaded with the hopes of regime change in Vene

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