Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration is putting “America First” where it counts — in the Western Hemisphere — by ramping up pressure on Venezuela’s narco-state and tightening scrutiny of Afghan arrivals after what he described as catastrophic vetting failures under former President Joe Biden.
In an interview Tuesday night, Rubio argued there’s no reason U.S. naval power should be treated as “problematic” when it operates close to home, especially when the Nicolás Maduro regime is, in his words, “a transshipment organization” for cocaine and other drugs headed toward the United States.
Rubio said President Donald Trump has authorized a counter-drug mission in the region and noted that Maduro’s anger is itself revealing: if the regime weren’t complicit, it wouldn’t feel threatened.
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