President Donald Trump said Thursday that his administration will inform Congress about targeting drug runners on land, adding that the United States plans to kill people "who are bringing drugs into our country."

After he touted recent military strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats as a massive success, Trump said, "The land is going to be next."

"We may go to the Senate and we may go to the Congress and tell them about it. But I can’t imagine they'd have any problem with it," he said at a White House roundtable on his homeland security task forces, which included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Trump then directed Hegseth to make it happen.

"Pete, you go to Congress, you tell them about it. What are they going to say, "Gee, we don't want to stop drugs pouring in?'" he said

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