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WATCH: Trump says U.S. should ‘wage war’ on Mexican cartels | 2025 Trump address to Congress
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6:54Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump said Mexican cartels pose a major threat to American security during his March 4 address to a joint session of Congress.
“The territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture, and exercise total control -- they have total control over a whole nation -- posing a grave threat to our national security,” Trump said. “The cartels are waging war in America, and it's time for America to wage war on the cartels, which we are doing.”
The first speech of Trump’s second term in office, while not officially a State of the Union address, is a chance for the president to lay out legislative priorities and tout early achievements.
Trump has moved to deliver on some of his campaign promises at breakneck speed, signing more than 75 executive orders in little more than a month. Thousands of federal workers have been fired at the direction of the Department of Government Efficiency and Trump adviser and billionaire Elon Musk.
Close to half of Americans in the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll disapprove of Trump’s job performance so far, but his approval rating, at 45 percent, is higher than at any point of his first term. While 54 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction, 45 percent believe the country is on the right track, a 10-point jump from December 2024.
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