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Unidentified speaker urges Congress to act after alleged unauthorized strikes killed "more than 80"
Summary
An unidentified speaker accused the Trump administration of an unauthorized overseas military campaign that "has killed more than 80 people," questioned the legal basis and scale of the deployments, and said they introduced legislation to limit such strikes. The claim was stated in the transcript and not independently verified there.
An unidentified speaker criticized the Trump administration on national security grounds, alleging a weeks-long military campaign in the Caribbean and Pacific "has killed more than 80 people, all without due process or Congress's approval," and urging congressional action to constrain further strikes.
The speaker, identified in the record only as "Unidentified Speaker 1," challenged the administration's stated rationale. "Their claim is to stop drugs," the speaker said, but added that officials "have been unwilling or unable to explain why these strikes are necessary or legal, or how these strikes will actually stop drugs from entering our country…
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