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Two Republican senators are calling on President Donald Trump to take out Syria’s air force in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people. More than two dozen of the dead were children.

Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are defense hawks and among Trump’s sharpest critics in the party. They say in a statement that Syrian President Bashar Assad “has crossed a line” and “must pay a punitive cost for this horrific attack.”

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