Marco Rubio

Also, in a hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday... They will submit every month a budget of this is what we need funded.

We will provide for them at the front end what that money cannot be used for.

And they've been very cooperative in this regard.

In fact...

I understand it's novel, but it's the best we could come up with in the short term.

Is there a written...

We are not postured to, nor do we intend or expect to have to take any military action in Venezuela at any time.

The only military presence you will see in Venezuela is our Marine Guards at an embassy.

That is our goal.

That is our expectation.

And that is what everything that outlines towards.

That said, if an Iranian drone factory pops up and threatens our forces in the region, the president retains the option to eliminate that threat.

We are much further along on this project than we thought we would be given the complexities of it going into it.

And I recognize that it won't be easy.

I mean, look, at the end of the day, we are dealing with people over there that have spent most of their lives living in a gangster paradise.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke twice this week with Mexico's Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente.

The State Department's readout of the most recent call was bland, saying the two countries were committed to working together to counter drug cartels.

The Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs took a more strident tone.

It wrote on X, quote, But according to U.S.

authorities, seizures of fentanyl have dropped by almost half in the past year,