US President Donald Trump gestures during an announcement regarding his administration's policies against cartels and human trafficking, next to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi, from the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that he could continue to launch strikes against alleged drug traffickers abroad without Congress first passing an official declaration of war.

“I’m not going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” he said. “I think we’re just doing to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re going to kill them, you know, they’re going to be like, dead.”

Trump’s dismissal came as he suggested his administration would

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