Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed briefings Congress has received regarding the Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats, calling them “a joke.”
“Were you satisfied with the answers that — you’ve gotten so far today in these classified briefings —” journalist Pablo Manríquez asked Ocasio-Cortez in a clip posted to the social platform X on Tuesday.
“Oh, hell no,” the New York Democrat responded. “That was a joke. That was a joke.”
“And, were any questions asked that were compelling — like, were any questions answered?” Manríquez said.
“There was not a single piece of intelligence that was shared that even rises to the level of any other briefing that we’ve seen on Ukraine, China, anything. There was no seri— this was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was a communication of opinion, and if this administration wants to go to war, they need to go get it from Congress,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Reuters reported Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave briefings to all members of Congress on Tuesday. The briefings were due to pressure from members of the legislative branch for information on the boat strikes, according to the outlet.
Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon was not going to release the full, unedited video of the early September strike on an alleged drug boat that killed 11 people, including two initial survivors in a follow-up strike.
