Washington — President Trump on Monday afternoon is expected to confer with his top deputies on the next steps for U.S. operations in Venezuela, according to a senior military official and two sources familiar with the upcoming White House meeting.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are scheduled to attend, two sources said. CNN was first to report the meeting, which comes amid the president's looming threats of military action on land and intensifying scrutiny by lawmakers over the Pentagon's lethal strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

The Washington Post reported Friday that Hegseth gave a verbal order to leave no survivors in the first U.S. strike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean. The U.S. attack on the vessel was annou

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