Pete Hegseth

Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under [Defense Department] jurisdiction.

Whole bunch of new options to the United States

We’re going to cut our hair, shave, shave our beards and adhere to standards.

The Department has spent over TWO DECADES defending other homelands. Now, we’re defending our own. These narco-terrorists have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda, and they will be treated the same. We will track them, we will network…

To defend our homeland, remove narcoterrorism from our hemisphere, and secure our homeland from the drugs that are killing our people.

Nothing's off the table, but nothing's automatically on the table.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the 17th known strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean region hours after the vote.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said.

If you're trafficking drugs to poison the American people and we know you're from a designated terrorist organization, you're a foreign terrorist or trafficker — we will find you and we will kill you.

My advice to foreign terrorist organizations is do not get in a boat.

We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO [f*ck around and find out].

To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: if you want to stay alive, stop trafficking drugs. If you keep trafficking deadly drugs -- we will kill you.