Republicans Criticize Hegseth for Deadly Caribbean Double Strike

Bipartisan lawmakers are demanding congressional probes into the defense secretary’s handling of a deadly boat strike.

A sitting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gestures as he speaks while President Donald Trump sitting next to him listens during a White House cabinet meeting. December 2, 2025, 5:50 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

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Moral indignation has been thick in the air on Capitol Hill this week from both Democrats and Republicans following the revelation that the U.S. military in early September conducted a secondary missile strike on survivors of an earlier U.S. attack on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea.

In the Sept. 2 incident, whic

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