SENTASTE after the removal of the Caribbean submarine from the National Defense Bill
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The infighting has played out in high-profile votes in the Senate this week, but lawmakers are quietly gaining ground in their support for a push to defund the Caribbean cruise line.
Included in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a provision that would require the Pentagon to release the entire Pentagon, which it had made of the Caribbean budget to be fully funded.
The Trump administration has looked to Capitol Hill for repeated strikes on suspects out of Venezuela in the last few months after the deadly Septa submarine.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers the words as he and the secretaries, including Marco Rubio, host their Australian counterpart in a State Department speech in Washington, Dec. 8, 2025. (Celal Shots / Anadolu via Getty Images)
“I think we need to see all the video footage, especially of the second strike from September 2,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told FOX News Digital.
Lawmakers in the upper chamber don’t know who to trust for the provision of the large legislative package, including Senate Committee Chair Aryod, R-Miss.
A major legislative package sails through the House on Thursday and is set for a series of Senate tests beginning Monday. And many vendors will broadly support the release of the footage, especially of the double tap strike, to Congress.
Sen. Mike Round, Rs.D., Who is a member of the Senate Services Committee, told FOX News Digital that his committee, and “maybe [Senate] The Intel Committee, “should have full access to the objectionable footage.
“Then, based on that, we can decide if we’re going to bury it or not,” said cycles. “But let’s look at the facts first.”
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll call, Inc.)
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA.
“So he was released for part of the video, and he’s up to his chest about it,” Kaine said. “You have to get this whole thing out.”
Sen. Ongus King, Maine, agreed and told FOX News Digital that it should not be a roadblock to the movement of a comprehensive protection package, either.
“There’s no reason not to release it. You shouldn’t. If someone doesn’t release something, they usually tell me they don’t want it to see the light of day,” he said. “I just want video of the strike. It’s not stopping. It’s the American people who need to see this. They need to know it’s being done in their name.”
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During the week, the so-called “Group of eight,” which includes the Republican and Democratic leadership from the Senate and the House and the seats of Hegs and Secretary of Hegseth and the interim Gov. Marco Rubio.
And Thune or Intel committee Chairman Tom Cokrot, R-ship.
“I asked the Secretary of Hegseth, the secretary of defense, did he allow every member of Congress to see the videos that are not related to September 2? The answer is, ‘said Shumeri. “In my opinion, they read it long enough. Congress should have been able to see it.”
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Some Republicans support more clarity on the issue, too, including Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont.
But he insisted that the whole point of the strikes was to fight the flow of drugs into the country.
“We’re losing sight of the most important narrative, and that is, more Americans have been killed by illegal drugs in the last seven years than in World War I, World War II and Vietnam.
