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Democrats and Republicans clashed on the Sunday show circuit over the Trump administration’s military strikes on boats in the Caribbean, with a Sept. 2 strike in particular becoming a focal point for the White House’s critics.
GOP lawmakers, with a few exceptions, have offered defenses of the ongoing attacks against vessels the administration says are carrying drugs bound for American streets.
No public evidence has been offered by the White House to support those claims, and the president is relying on the administration’s designation of drug cartels as terrorist organizations to justify the
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