President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday sought to distance themselves from the decision to launch a follow-up strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, insisting they weren’t aware of what the military had done after the first strike didn’t kill everyone on board.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who fell out with Trump over his handling of the Epstein files, has voiced opposition to regime change in Venezuela. She has broken with Trump over other foreign policy issues in the past as well. “Fix health insurance. Not regime change in Venezuela,” she wrote Monday on X.

"Republicans break ranks with Trump over Hegseth scandal, but will they show true courage in taking this crucial step? Critics question

The president told reporters he spoke to the defense secretary about the contents of an explosive Washington Post report that has alarmed lawmakers.

New fallout Tuesday morning after the Trump Administration confirmed it struck an alleged drug boat twice off the coast of Venezuela while saying the order did not come from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday continued what appears to be a deliberate effort to blame a veteran naval officer for the order to launch a second missile strike on an alleged drug-running boat that killed two survivors of an earlier missile hit.

Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.

Even if you accept the president's assertion of an 'armed conflict' with drug smugglers, blowing apart boat strike survivors would be a war crime.