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Donald Trump has no plans to ask Congress to declare war on drug cartels after his administration At least 37 people died With missile attacks on alleged drug carrying boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
When asked why he would not seek a resolution from Congress for a military operation to target the South American regime, as he claims Fueling the drug epidemic in the United StatesTrump said his government was “just going to kill people” instead.
“I don’t think we would necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just going to kill the people who are bringing drugs into our country, OK? We’re going to kill them,” Trump said during an event. White House roundtable meeting with administration officials Thursday.
“They’ll, like, die, OK,” he said.
The President had said a day earlier that if “they come by land, he will seek permission from Congress.”
“And they haven’t experienced it yet, but now we are fully prepared to do so,” he said on Wednesday. “We’ll probably go back to Congress and explain what we’re doing when [they] Come to the land.”
The power to declare war rests solely with Congress, as established under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. To draw up a formal declaration of war a resolution must be passed by a majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and then signed by the President, which was last officially declared in 1942.
So far, the Administration has announced that the United States is The drug cartels are formally involved in an “armed conflict” with what the president has labeled “unlawful combatants.” According to a confidential notice to members of Congress.
Last week Trump said The CIA was authorized to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela.Nicolas marks a significant escalation in his aggressive campaign against Maduro’s regime and drug cartels, which Trump claims is run by Maduro’s government.
Trump told reporters at the White House that he “authorized” the CIA operation because Venezuela had “emptied its prisons into the United States” and flooded the country with drugs.
He said defense officials were now “considering a ground strike” in Venezuela.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced two operations on Wednesday, bringing the death toll from the administration’s attacks to at least 37.
Authorities have not identified the groups or countries accused of running drugs into the Pacific region.
Critics have argued military campaign is equal to illegal extrajudicial killingsWhile members of Congress and civil rights groups are pressing the administration for evidence justifying the attacks and for legal memos shared among White House officials.
Asked why the army was not capturing people on boats, including survivors of one of the attacks Deported back to their home countriesRather than killing them, Hegseth compared it to “catch and release”.
Hegseth said that arresting people suspected of running drugs – rather than killing them – “should change the psychology of these foreign terrorist organizations.”
Trump said Thursday that his administration would “definitely” brief members of Congress about the attacks being planned, “and except for the radical left-wing lunatics, they’d probably love that.”
The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is demanding the hearing.
“The absence of any credible legal rationale for the administration’s armed campaign against drug cartels raises worrying questions about whether it intends to carry out similar extrajudicial attacks elsewhere in the world — or even within the United States,” Representative Gregory Meeks said in a statement Thursday.
“Equally troubling is the credibility of the intelligence supporting these operations,” he said.
According to Meeks, the President’s “ongoing expansion of these attacks into a unilateral, potentially widespread regional war should concern every member of Congress who wants to reclaim Congress’s authority to prevent endless wars that lack clear objectives and unnecessarily endanger American lives.”