I have the legal authority to carry out the attacks on the alleged drug-carrying boats.

Abrego is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator.

I don’t know how he sleeps at night.

We did more than $17 trillion in eight months, and I think by the time we finish up our first year, we’re gonna be over $20 [trillion] or $21 trillion.

On education — when schools are failing, I believe we should close them and replace them with charter schools. I’m a strong believer in charter schools.

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…

This is what American justice looks like.

I told you, $17 trillion, but it’s gonna be $20 [trillion], $21 trillion. And that’s numbers that have never been heard of before.

if they're not good, they're going to be terminated. Their lives will be terminated. and they understand that.

Abrego played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring that was his full-time job.

I know many oppose them, but when a public school fails generation after generation, and we keep it open anyway, that’s unacceptable.

The four vessels were known by our intelligence apparatus, transiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics.

Cartels have killed more Americans than Al-Qaeda, and they will be treated the same.

The point that I made to my Republican colleagues, recognizing that there's a diversity of opinions about it, is that the tariffs give us the ability to put American workers first.

nothing's going to jeopardize the ceasefire

the ceasefire is holding.

We will hit them very hard when they come in by land.

We are going to kill them, you know? They are going to be, like, dead.