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A week after the president surged more members of the National Guard to Washington, an appeals court halted an order that would have required the Guard to pull out after Dec. 11.
Admiral Frank Bradley, who gave the order for a second strike on a drug boat, was on Capitol Hill briefing lawmakers about the September incident.
Hegseth ordered the deadly Sept. 2 military strike on a suspected drug-running vessel in the Caribbean Sea, but did not direct the killing of any survivors of the initial attack, according to a
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the commander of a September operation "worked well within his authority and the law" when ordering a follow-on strike.