(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump and the Pentagon show no signs of changing course on using military strikes to destroy suspected drug boats in the Caribbean.

"We are taking the fight out to the seas where it needs to be," U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, told The Center Square. "We're seeing hundreds of thousands of people who are being murdered by drugs. They're illegally pouring in over our borders."

Her Republican colleagues in the Senate shut down a Democrat-led proposal this week that would have required Trump to get congressional approval before using the military to destroy suspected drug boats in the region.

In a 51-48 vote, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted with Democrats in favor of the measure. Republicans blocked it with help from Sen

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