As the White House on Monday admitted that the military conducted a second strike on an alleged drug vessel after the first left survivors, Congress appeared poised to launch perhaps its most aggressive oversight of the Trump Administration this year, as lawmakers from both parties expressed concerns that the U.S. was guilty of a war crime.

“It’s a criminal offense—war crimes or murder are criminal offenses,” Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, a member of the Armed Services Committee, told TIME. Referring to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s role in the strikes, Blumenthal added, “Hegseth doesn’t have the immunity that the President of the United States does.”

Lawmakers from both parties were raising the term “war crime” on Monday, as pressure mounts on the Trump Admin

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