WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday on social media the U.S. military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel.

The strike that Trump said was carried out Monday came two weeks after another military strike on what the Trump administration claims was a drug-carrying speedboat from Venezuela that killed 11.

The Trump administration justified the earlier strike as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States.

But several senators, Democrats and some Republicans, are dissatisfied with the administration's rationale and questioned the legality of the action. They view it as a potential overreach of executive authority in part by using the military for law enforcement purposes.

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