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The Trump administration is stepping up its defense of the homeland while Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers a chilling warning to narco-terrorists: attempts to harm Americans will no longer be "tolerated."

"President Trump's locking the border down… now we go on offense to make sure these cartels can't be funded, that they can't sustain what they're doing," Hegeth told Fox News' Rachel Campos-Duffy.

In his first interview as secretary of War, Hegseth detailed the Pentagon's precision efforts to secure the western hemisphere, stressing his mission as defense chief to protect the homeland, the American people and U.S. national interests.

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