Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking at President Donald Trump's cabinet meeting on Tuesday, said that "we've only just begun" striking alleged drug boats, saying they will be put "at the bottom of the ocean."

"We've only just begun striking narco-boats and putting narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean because they've been poisoning the American people," Hegseth said.

Hegseth's comments come after he has faced bipartisan scrutiny over reports that the U.S. military killed two survivors of an earlier strike on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September.

The White House acknowledges that a second strike was ordered on a boat already hit by the military in the Caribbean Sea, and ABC News has confirmed that survivors from the initial strike were killed as

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