Drug Czar Sara Carter Says Trump Is Putting America First on Fentanyl and Cartels
March 27, 2026 · Office of National Drug Control Policy · 0:01:25
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What happened
Drug Czar Sara Carter said President Donald J. Trump has brought back putting America first and putting the American people first, producing what she called an unbelievable and remarkable geopolitical shift because somebody had the courage to stand up, as she stated it. She said she feels blessed to be part of the administration and will fight every single day for the American people, according to her remarks.
Carter said the nation must be freed from what she described as the proxy war being waged on it by China and others who have poisoned the nation and killed its children. She pledged that every day the administration will go after the cartels, hold China accountable for what it is doing to the nation, and protect American children, because the American people are the country’s most important resource, as she put it.
The program’s host closed by describing Carter as the drug czar who fights the fentanyl and other opioids China is bringing into the country, and thanked her, noting the issue is about human lives, according to the broadcast.
Why it matters
Carter’s remarks state the drug-policy frame of her tenure at ONDCP: fentanyl as a China-waged proxy war and cartel enforcement as the response, with child protection as the stated purpose.
Sources: Office of National Drug Control Policy, “Drug Czar Sara Carter: President Trump is putting America First”, 2026-03-27 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-03-27). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.
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