U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is now claiming that the administration of President Donald Trump has not provided lawmakers with any evidence to justify the strikes that it has carried out on alleged drug trafficking boats in the southern waters. 

Breitbart News reports that Blumenthal made this claim on Friday during an appearance on MSNBC's "Deadline."

As we will see, however, none of this is slowing the Trump administration down. The strikes continue.

Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Caribbean.

This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be… pic.twitter.com/W7xqeMpSUi

— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) November 2, 2025

"No evidence"?

During his appearance on the far-left MSNBC outlet, Blumenthal was asked, "What briefings have you received on the success of striking drug traffickers? Have you seen evidence or images of drugs being found on the boats that have been struck?”

The senator replied:

What briefings? Zero. And as you may know, I think it’s public by now, there was a briefing for Republican senators only, which is unprecedented. So we’ve seen no evidence, none whatsoever, as to who is in these boats, more than ten of them that have been struck already, who are manning or operating them, what they’re carrying and where they’re headed.

Blumenthal continued in the same vein.

He added:

Nor have we received any briefing as to what their strategy is in amassing one seventh of our Navy, literally one seventh of all our naval power in the vicinity of Venezuela, whether it is to strike those military installations, as the Herald and the Wall Street Journal have reported they consider doing. And what the end game is. There was a briefing yesterday in the House for Democratic, as well as Republican members of Congress. And my discussions with those members of Congress indicates that it was completely unconvincing and virtually uninformative. So this administration is concealing facts. If it has facts that would justify such strikes.

Details, such as with whom Blumenthal spoke from the Republican side, were not provided.

The latest strike

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed the latest strike carried out by the U.S. military on these alleged drug trafficking boats.

On social media, on Saturday, he wrote:

Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Caribbean. This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics.

Hegseth included a video of the strike.

He continued:

Three male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. All three terrorists were killed, and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike. These narco-terrorists are bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans at home—and they will not succeed. The Department will treat them EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda.

"We will continue to track them, map them, hunt them, and kill them," Hegseth concluded.