{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/10/16/daines-on-fox-news-president-trump-is-taking-the-fight-to-venezuelan-narco-terrorists/", "Daines on Fox News: President Trump is Taking the Fight to Venezuelan Narco-Terrorists", "2025-10-16", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Steve Daines", "D000618", "www.daines.senate.gov", "daines", "https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "U.S. SENATE \u2013 U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Fox News to discuss President Trump\u2019s strong response to narcotrafficking and the situation in Venezuela.\n\nWatch the full interview HERE.\n\nDaines on how President Trump is countering Maduro\u2019s illegitimate regime of narco-terrorism:\n\nI\u2019m very proud and grateful for President Trump\u2019s bold and decisive leadership as our Commander in Chief. You can\u2019t win by only having your defense on the field. You\u2019ve got to put the offense on the field if you\u2019re going to win. You think about why the President is taking this decisive action. You know, 100,000 Americans die every year because of drug overdoses. In fact, it\u2019s the leading cause of death for 18- to 45-year-olds. Cocaine deaths in this country are up 85 percent while Joe Biden was president. He had, something has to be done, and President Trump has taken the fight to these narco-terrorists. And as it has been stated, Maduro is an illegitimate leader. It was a stolen election. He\u2019s running and facilitating a narco-terrorist organization, the drugs are flooding into our country, combined with the criminals, the Tren de Aragua, the organized criminal gangs, opening up the jail cells, flooding into America. In fact, we arrested a handful of these TDA members in Montana a few months ago.\n\nDaines on President Trump\u2019s bold leadership:\n\nWell, we\u2019ll wait and see what happens because we\u2019re not sure exactly what the operation looks like. But I would tell you this, I have incredible confidence in President Trump\u2019s bold leadership, his decision-making, his wisdom, and you\u2019re seeing he is resetting the world order because of his peace through strength. You don\u2019t negotiate with terrorists or narco-terrorists. You\u2019ve got to take them out. And that\u2019s what you\u2019re seeing with this bold action, taking out the boats full of drugs coming to our shores. These drugs are killing our children, adults, our neighbors. It\u2019s got to end. Joe Biden allowed it to happen on his watch. President Trump is going to stop it on his watch\u2026 I\u2019m sure it is not a good day for Maduro. As President Trump said in his interview, other countries are watching. You know who else is watching what\u2019s going on right now? Mexico. You\u2019ve got these cartels that are terrorist organizations that are flooding our southern border with fentanyl, a very deadly drug. He [Trump] is putting the world on notice that it\u2019s going to end. You can\u2019t allow these narco-terrorists to have unfettered access into the United States. I\u2019m grateful, as a father of four and grandfather of seven for President Trump protecting our family and families across America.\n\nDaines on President Trump\u2019s decisive action against drug cartels:\n\nThat image is a pretty strong deterrence to what\u2019s happening right now in the oceans there between the United States and South America. But when you go into a battle, it\u2019s immoral not to go in with use of overwhelming force. Every tool in the toolbox. Otherwise, you don\u2019t want to be risking American lives unless we\u2019ve got overwhelming force. President Trump is leading with bold decisiveness and the use of overwhelming force. That\u2019s the fastest way to achieve the outcome the President desires.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/10/16/daines-on-fox-news-president-trump-is-taking-the-fight-to-venezuelan-narco-terrorists/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6411420181393623, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}