Administration of Donald J. Trump, 2026
October 6, 2026
Well, thank you very much. It's an honor to be with you.
I want to congratulate Pete Hegseth on doing such a great job. We had a thing called Venezuela. That went quickly. And we're doing extremely well in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Very well. They have no—military is shot. The whole place is shot. And they were the evil one. They were the bully of the Middle East. They're not so much the bully anymore. But we have to finish up. And it's only a question of which way do we want to do it: the nice way or the not-so-nice way. And pretty soon, you'll find out.
A very special hello to a brilliant group of people: brilliant men and women of Anduril Industries and the patriots of the greatest maritime power ever to dominate the seas, the United States Navy. Thank you.
And we're especially pleased to be joined by the talented midshipmen of the one and only
U.S. Naval Academy. That's a big deal.
I remember I had a lot of smart friends, years ago, when I was in high school. They wanted to go to the Naval Academy. They couldn't get in. [Laughter] I said, "You're not smart enough to get in." Too bad, isn't it? And it's only gotten tougher. So I congratulate you.
I want to give a special salute to the sailors aboard the USS Billings, who have just returned from a deployment to the Caribbean, where they helped decimate the cartel terrorists and delivered 77,000 pounds of lifesaving aid to the people of Venezuela.
And we're getting along great with Venezuela. We're taking out billions and billions of dollars of oil. We paid for that voyage—that little voyage we made—many, many times over. You don't hear that much anymore in this country. But to the victor belong the spoils, right? An old-fashioned expression that we've brought back.
But I'd like to give a very big round of applause to those people. They have done a fantastic job, and thank you very much.
To all members of our Armed Forces, please be at ease. Also, just relax. Take it easy, because this is fun for me to do. I love to see this. I love you people. You're the best anywhere in the world. You're the best. It's really a lot of fun. So just enjoy it, if you enjoy Trump. If you don't enjoy Trump—by the way, I'm going around doing rallies. The Republican Party is starting to go right through the roof. Somebody said today, "I wonder why?" Well, I started—I had to get out. I had to do—we had to explain what we're doing. There's never been a time like this in our country.
We have $21 trillion being invested, but we have to say it because the media doesn't like talking about that. I used to call them the "fake news." But as President, I have to be a little more respectful of the media than that. So now I call them the "artificial news." [Laughter]
I took "artificial" off the word "intelligence." And I call it "super intelligence," which is really much—I think, much better. It's really much more accurate, because it's really not artificial intelligence; it's super intelligence. It's—artificial means fake. So I call them the artificial media. But let's not get into that. [Laughter]
But we are doing like no country has ever done: $21 trillion. And we're building plants.
We're building everything. Most importantly, we're building a military—we had a trillion dollars.
First time that's ever taken place. And we're going to be upping that a little bit with Pete and General Caine and all of the people that we meet with.
We're—I rebuilt our military, my first term. And we've used it a little bit in my second term.
And I'm very honored to have done it. What we've done is incredible—all for peace and all for goodwill.
Today we're officially launching the construction of the largest new shipyard in the United States. This is—since World War II, there's been nothing like what we're doing today.
The workers of Baltimore and the shipyard here at Sparrows Point have been a vital part of the American industrial strength for literally over a hundred years. And along these very shores, American tradesmen built one of the first frigates in the U.S. Navy, they forged the steel that built the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge, and this is where the patriots of Baltimore built the first-ever Liberty ship in the Second World War. There's a tremendous history.
I flew over it just now, and, boy, it's a great piece of—being a real estate developer initially, always have—I said, "That's a nice piece of real estate." And it's big. This is going to be some big yard.
When I came into office for my second term, less than 2 years ago, this national treasure was abandoned and was totally forgotten, but it's not forgotten any longer.
In a tremendous victory for our country and for the city of Baltimore, Anduril is investing
$3.7 billion in a state-of-the-art shipyard that will be known forever as Arsenal–2. It's one—one of the most—one of the biggest and one of the most significant shipyards, I think, soon. Very soon will be—anywhere in the world, we'll be as significant as any. That's what we're looking for.
Right here in Sparrows Point, you'll build the next generation of American submarines, including autonomous subs, torpedo tubes, and critical components for our cutting-edge Virginia-class attack submarines, the greatest and quietest ever built. And thanks to record funding from my administration, the Republicans in Congress, the U.S. Navy is also contributing an additional
$2.9 billion to support the shipyard, with the possibility of ultimately, together with a lot of great patriots, $21 billion in future purchases. This is going to be a big component for our future military.
This massive project will create over 3,100 new jobs right here in Maryland and will support an additional 11,000 jobs across the Nation.
And I love the idea of the autonomous sub. Who ever heard of autonomous? It just makes sense, because—I wouldn't—I'm not sure that I would have the courage to go into submarines too much. You guys love them. But me, I'd rather be floating on the sea, so I like the idea of an autonomous sub all down there by itself.
But just as accurate—I mean, it's incredible what they can do. I saw some research-and-development papers on it. It's unbelievable the things that we're coming up with over the next 5-year period. It's—nobody would ever believe it's even possible. So autonomous subs is one of them.
And, in the ultimate proof of our commitment to ensuring the shipyard's enduring success, American taxpayers will receive a 40 percent stake in the new shipyard; we get 40 percent. And the storied grounds of Sparrows Point will never fall silent again. There's a tremendous amount of activity going on, even now. It's just starting, but even now.
So I want to thank everyone who made this day possible, including Anduril founder, a friend of mine, Palmer Luckey. And I want to thank Palmer. He's a great guy. A very brilliant guy. CEO Brian Schimpf, COO Matt Grimm, President and Chief Strategy officer Christian Brose,
President and Chief Business Officer Matthew Steckman, along with the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth.
You know, we changed the name to "Secretary of War." We had great victories with Secretary of War, and then somebody became politically correct. I—see, I think it's actually politically incorrect. And they said "Secretary of Defense." We like "Secretary of War" much better.
But I want to thank Pete and the Deputy Secretary of War, Steve Feinberg, who's done a fantastic job. He's a brilliant guy. He was actually a billionaire. Made billions of dollars, and he just—from the first day I knew him, all he wants to do is be in the military. He would have been much better as a general or an admiral. He would have given up all of his money to be a general or an admiral. I always say, "There's a guy that's a rich guy," and the only one he respects are the generals and the admirals. He likes the military, and he's done a fantastic job.
But it's really—we call it the Pentagon's Deal Team Six. Deal Team Six. A little cute. Little
cute.
Thanks as well to a great Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, who's sitting right up
here in the very blinding sun. How are you doing? Okay? It looks like the sun is right smack in your face.
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, who's fantastic. He's done a job. We have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks. Right, Russ? He's going to be one of the very important people in the history of our country, in my opinion. He's got some great things happening.
Acting Secretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, who everyone loves. Director of Submarine Programs, Admiral Rob Gaucher. And Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, General Michael Borgschulte.
We also have Baltimore Ravens star—oh, ho, ho—these guys are making a lot of money.
They're doing very well. [Laughter] I think they're 3-and-1, or something like that. They're doing good.
Raven's star Marlon Humphrey, Tyler Loop, Ryan Eckley, and Nick Moore. Could you stand up? You guys are wide—big stars. Where are you guys? Here they are. Good-looking guys.
So let me ask you just—you know, I sort of—he sort of looked coach-like, and I said, "Tell me, is he a coach?" They said, "No, he's the snapper." You know, nowadays, those long snappers, they're very valuable. It's an amazing job you do with that. And he's got an unblemished record. He's—how far is that? Like 10 yards deep or more? Fifteen yards, and he throws strikes. He throws strikes. I don't know how the hell you do it.
So he's got a little gray hair, I notice. But you know, they don't care. They want him for one play. They want him for one play. You look damn good too. [Laughter] Thank you.
Congratulations. What a team you have. You have a great team this year.
And say hello to your quarterback. He's a little bit injured, but—and tell him I know his mother. I met his mother a few times in Palm Beach, and she's a fantastic, beautiful woman. But give him my regards. He is some player. Have a great year. Thank you. Thank you, fellas.
And what we're doing this afternoon is part of a dramatic turnaround for America and our defense industrial base. The United States once built—I mean, think of it. Not so long ago, we built as many as four ships a day. Who would believe that? But more recently, it's taken an average of 7 to 15 years. There's something going on. Same people, same everything.
You know, I just got back from a trip. Made a speech at Peterbilt. It's a truck company. They make among the finest trucks in the world—the big ones, the big haulers. And they had some of them on display that we've all seen on the roads. Peterbilt, very fine company.
And I said to the boss—they're doing well. They're expanding. I was there because they're doing this billion-dollar expansion beyond that. I said: "How many trucks do you make a day, or—would you say—or a week, or a year? What is it? What? How many do you build?" He said, "200." I said, "200 a year?" He said: "No, 200 a day. We build 200 trucks." I said: "You've got to be kidding. You build 200?"
We can do the same thing with ships. We used to do that. Think of it. Two hundred trucks, cabs, the engines, the whole thing, a day.
And I thought he was giving me false information, so I immediately checked it out—[laughter]—and it was exactly right. We can do the same thing with ships. We used to build—they say four. I always heard we built one a day, but they're saying four a day. It's hard to believe. Same country. More advanced. Much more advanced. We build other things, but with ships—we're going to be back into building great, great ships.
And Anduril's Arsenal–2 will form part of the industrial backbone of the 21st century of the United States Navy, and it'll be known really as the Golden Fleet.
This is the golden age of America. We're doing numbers that nobody ever thought were possible. We're doing the biggest numbers economically that we've ever done in the history of our country.
You know, in my first term, we had the best economy that we've ever had. It was interrupted by COVID at the end, but we had the best numbers even with that. We left with a stock market that was higher than it was at the beginning. It was the highest stock market up until that time.
And now we have 81 times—in a little more than a year and a half, 81 alltime stock market highs.
The highest price—if you look at your 401(k)s, we are higher than at any time. Over $45,000 more in average value. That's in a very short period of time.
But the big thing is $21 trillion being invested by others into our country. There's never been a country that's even close to that. The highest number was $3-, and we're at $21 trillion. And that's building factories all over the country. It's building plants.
Our drug industry is coming back. Our car industry is coming back. They're leaving Canada.
They're leaving Mexico. They're leaving Japan and Germany, South Korea. We're building car plants. So we didn't build a car plant for 44 years in this country. Now we're building more car plants than we ever have in history.
It's all because of my favorite word, my fourth-favorite, maybe my fifth: "tariff." Without tariffs, we wouldn't be doing that. Even though the election was a big runaway—even though the election was great. But that has something to do with it, obviously. But the word "tariff" for us was—has made us a rich country again, and rich in a lot of ways.
We ended eight wars. I ended eight wars. We haven't ended Russia-Ukraine yet. I'm working on that one. That one I thought would be the easiest one for me. But we've ended eight wars. And that's going to happen too, pretty soon. A lot of people dying in that war. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous what's happened. But it's—believe it or not, it doesn't look it, but it's actually getting closer.
But the word "tariff," when you build here, you don't pay anything. If you build your product in another country and you think you're going to send it in here and take our jobs and just send it
in like nothing happened, it's not going to happen. So we charge 25 percent, 50 percent, 100 percent, 200 percent—all different numbers for different products.
But we have the chip industry moving back into our country. We should have never lost it. We lost it to Taiwan mostly. Almost everyone did. Taiwan has got a big part, about—almost 100 percent of the market. But we lost it. We let them take it away like we were babies.
But I said it's my favorite word, and I got in big trouble. Look at all the press. There's so many press. They're lovely people. But what happened is I said: "Tariff is my favorite word in the dictionary. I love tariff. It's going to make America rich again," which it's doing. And they just really went after it. "What about God? What about wife? What about family? What about children?" So I make it now my fifth-favorite word—[laughter]—and I'm okay. I'm in good shape.
But our country is becoming rich again. Really rich because of that. And we have more factories, plants. Our whole medical and pharmaceutical business is pouring back into our country. Howard will tell you that. Russell will tell you that. It's all coming back.
Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, they're all building massive, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of plants all over the country, because we learned that from COVID. We didn't make our pharmaceutical—we didn't make our drugs. It was made in China and lots of other places—Ireland, all over Europe. We didn't make our drugs here.
They're all coming back. And if they don't, what happens is I give them a little time, and after that, they have to pay a little tariff. Then they have to pay a little bigger tariff. Then, if they still don't have it after a year and a half, they pay a big tariff. And if they don't have it after 2 years, they pay a real big tariff. So they're all building, every one of them.
It's pretty simple. Although, a lot of people haven't figured it out. Maybe they still don't understand. But the numbers are bigger than anybody's—any country has ever had by far. Not even close. We're leading on super intelligence, and we're leading by a lot.
And, as you know, I had President Xi here a few days ago. We get along great. It's nice to get along great with others, but we get along very good, and we have things—great things going with them. That's better than not having a relationship. We have a very good—we've had a—always had a good relationship. But we're making a lot of money with China.
But my administration has already secured over $76 billion in funding for shipbuilding to produce more than 80 new ships for the Navy and Coast Guard. And we're doing other things to get new ships that will really speed up the process, because we need ships, and we're doing things that were—are a little bit different. We're going to have the finest ships anywhere in the world.
With the help of everyone here today, America is going to remain the undisputed naval superpower of the world. You know, when I call the—when I see the wall of steel, which is what it is, that we've done—they call it a blockade. I call it the wall of steel. Not one ship has gotten through to Iran. The only ships that go through are the ones that we let go through, and it's had a huge impact. That's why their nation has failed financially. They're a failed nation. Everyone is quitting. Everyone is leaving. They're not paying their military. They're not paying their police. They're not paying anybody. They're a mess. But we still have to finish it off.
Our Navy is leading the way in ensuring that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. And that's something we've been saying—that will never happen. That will never happen. That's already fait accompli.
Our great sailors and naval aviators have fought heroically to annihilate their military. They have no air force. Their air force is gone. Their navy is gone. They have 159 ships. Every one of them is right now at the bottom of the sea, lying at the bottom of the sea. Their radar is gone.
Their anti-aircraft equipment is all gone. Their missile and drone manufacturing capacity is way down. It will soon be gone. We know exactly where the rest of it is.
Their economy is in ruins. They have inflation like no other country anywhere in the world. And the man who left the other day said, "I'm leaving because our country is finished."
That's what he said. I don't know. I don't take anything for granted, but they're not doing well.
And thanks to the men and women of America's Armed Forces, dozens of Iran's terrorist leaders have been blown out of existence and straight through to the gates of hell.
As you know, their leaders are gone. Their second group of leaders are gone. And the biggest problem I have is, nobody knows who the hell is running the country. Nobody knows. But maybe that's a good thing. But you remember Khamenei. They're all gone.
And here we are. We're going to—we're doing things that nobody has ever done before.
As an example, this country should have been taken care of. We're into 51 years now, the bully of the Middle East. It should've—this should have been done a long time ago by other Presidents or other countries. Doesn't have to be us. It's always us. It should have been done by other countries long ago, because, with time, it just got worse.
But we've done a job, and frankly, I get calls all the time from the leaders of the world thanking me very much. I said: "Good. When are you going to pay for it?" Says, "Thank you, sir, for doing such a good job." And I'll say to them: "That's great. Do you want to send some ships?" "Sir, I would rather not get involved." They don't have any ships.
We're really holding up the whole world; it's on our shoulders. And we love doing it. In a certain way, we love doing it because we've gotten stronger and others have gotten weaker.
They've just gotten weak, they've gotten ineffective, and we're doing things that nobody else—no nation could ever have done.
We have the strongest military anywhere in the world. We have the greatest military equipment anywhere in the world, and it's not even close. Our Patriot systems, our Tomahawks, our ships, our submarines—we are so far ahead of—Russia is number two, but we're 15 years ahead of them in terms of submarine development, and we've just started—when you hear about autonomous and all the other things I've seen today.
The United States Navy is enforcing one of the most effective and impenetrable blockades in history—nobody has ever seen a blockade like that—with no ships, zero, getting in. Every once in a while, they'll do a run, and they'll either hit the cabin. If it's got oil, they'll hit the cabin or they'll hit the rudder. If it doesn't have oil, we just sink the ship.
Yet oil shipments from outside of Iran, right now, they're back to almost higher than they've ever been. In other words, the Hormuz Strait belongs to the United States Navy and the United States of America. That's where it belongs, and that's where it is right now.
With all of that being said, we don't need their oil. Others need their oil, and they need it badly. But we're getting it out, and we're getting it out at record levels.
Our Navy is also ending the bloody reign of drug cartels and savage foreign gangs here in the Western Hemisphere. Drugs coming in by ocean and sea are down 97 percent. That's——
[At this point, the President motioned downward.] You know?
For the great football players, they watch this. They watch this. They—anybody coming in by sea who's working one of those drug boats, I consider them to be the bravest men maybe
anywhere in the world because those boats are being knocked out. They used to—they call it "interdict." They used to grab them and bring them to a court in Miami or Texas, and they'd be out the following day, bringing drugs back into our country. Now we take out the boats.
Think of it: Drugs—fentanyl is down by sea—by ocean and sea, by the Gulf of America.
The Gulf of America. Not Mexico.
That was a little rough time when I did that. I got a call from the President of Mexico: "No, no, President." She's a very nice woman, a beautiful woman, beautiful voice, and she said, "No, no, President." Very elegant. "Please, please, tell me it's not so." "It's so. I'm sorry, ma'am. It's so. We changed the name from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It is so. I'm sorry." And, "No, no."
But it's just one of those things. I always felt it. You know, I—it didn't take long. It was sort of amazing. We have 93 percent of the coastline; they have 7. And it never made sense to me that it was called the Gulf of Mexico.
During their recent deployment, the sailors aboard the USS Billings alone helped intercept nearly three tons of illegal narcotics from the cartels, saving countless lives.
And with the Navy's support, we captured the outlaw known as the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and won the war in exactly 148 minutes. They don't talk about that. They say, "Oh, we're in for 6 months"—into Iran. Yes, Iran is bigger, but we really ended it as soon as the B–2 bombers hit because that was the end of their nuclear, and that was 95 percent of the reason we did it—maybe 100 percent.
This fearless, confident, and strategic use of American power shows why we're investing so heavily in the shipyards and Navy of the future. We want to maintain America's unmatched capability and freedom of action for all future generation.
Last year, I proudly signed into law a record-setting defense budget, and this year is going to be $1.5 trillion, I believe. I'm—I don't want to speak too early. But we broke the trillion mark, and we're going to be at 1.5. At the same time, we're cutting costs of other things, which are wastes.
But we're going to have new ships and drones and aircraft and missiles and everything. Our equipment is the most advanced. And by the way, the drones—people are saying about drones, that other countries have now—our drones are superior to anything. When you see the new set of drones, you're not going to believe it. It—the most superior drones anywhere in the world. It's not even close.
But most importantly, it's all very proudly stamped and made in the U.S.A. We stamp it "Made"—everything is stamped "Made in the U.S.A."
We're fighting to include a hard-earned pay raise for every sailor, soldier, airman, coast guardsman, space guardian—I love Space Force; that was my baby—and marine.
And of course, last year, I also gave our servicemembers a warrior dividend, we call it, of—it was supposed to be $1,775—1,775. And I sat, and I looked. I'm reading it, ready to sign. I said, "Well, do you know, if you add $1 to it, it would be $1,776. That means something." I said, "Do you think"—I called up Russell Vought. I called up Howard Lutnick. Called up my group. "Do you think we could find an extra dollar to make it $1,776?" They said, "I think we can do that." And we made it—right?—we made it $1,776, and it was great.
Everybody said, "Oh, we'll never be able to do that." Well, we did it. We got it done. We made the payment.
And now we're going to be giving $5,000 to every adult citizen of our country, and we'll be able to do it, where the Democrats can't do it, as you know. They won't be able to do it because they don't believe in wealth. They don't believe in tariffs coming in. They don't believe in all the money that we have pouring in. It will be the exact opposite. You'd end up in a t- —you'll end up in a 1929 depression if they ever take over.
So, less than 2 years ago, our country was laughed at by our enemies, but they're not laughing anymore. They don't laugh at us anymore. They laughed at us. They thought we were stupid people.
America is respected again, and I think they're respected—I think we're respected like never before. A short time ago, as said by numerous leaders—the King of Saudi Arabia; many leaders said it—"Sir, a short time ago, we thought your country was dead, and now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world." We're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Since taking office, we've secured commitments for money that nobody has ever thought even imaginable. There's never been anything like it. The Republic of Korea has given us $150 billion recently. That all goes into shipbuilding, and that was a way of buying down their tariffs. They want to buy down their tariffs. I said, "You've got to pay for it."
The Korean company Hanwha is spending billions of dollars to revitalize the historic shipyard in Philadelphia. Big, old shipyard. Billions of dollars. Hadrian manufacturing and the
U.S. Navy are investing $2.4 billion in Alabama. Saronic is investing $3.2 billion in Texas to build a new shipyard on the beautiful shores of the Gulf of America.
And we're buying icebreakers from Finland. We're making them with them and also buying them. They specialize in icebreakers. That's all they do is, they make icebreakers, and they build the best icebreakers. And we said: "Come on. We want to know about that." We're building them ourselves with Finland, and we're buying a few because we need them badly.
With our combined efforts, this will be a golden age like no country has ever seen and like our country has never seen. But it'll also be a golden age of shipbuilding, and the workers at Arsenal–2 and Sparrows Point will be leading the way. What we see today will be nothing when you come back in 1 year, and when you come back in 2 years, you're not going to believe what you see.
Generations ago, these grounds hummed with the sound of hammers and saws, carving out some of the most beautiful wooden ships. Think of it. Wooden ships of the day, long time ago, much more than a hundred years.
Now, with the men and women of Anduril, the workers of Maryland, and the warriors of the
U.S. Navy—which is just a special, special group—this place will roar with the sound of high-tech manufacturing, building ships and submarines that will be feared by our enemies all over the world. They got to be feared. They're going to be feared. Respected and feared.
With American hands, American heart, and American grit, we will build the future of America's Navy right here in Baltimore, and it will be a future of peace through strength.
We have never been a stronger country than we are right now. We have never had a greater military. I believe we've never had greater leaders. Our country is doing better than it's ever done before. We're the envy of the world, and we're going to keep it that way.
I want to thank you all very much. God bless you all. God bless the U.S. Navy. God bless the United States of America.
Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 4:03 p.m. at the Sparrows Point Shipyard. In his remarks, he referred to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. J. Daniel Caine, USAF; Marlon Humphrey, cornerback, Tyler Loop, kicker, Ryan Eckley, punter, Nick Moore, long snapper, and Lamar Jackson, quarterback, National Football League's Baltimore Ravens; Felicia Jones, mother of Mr. Jackson; R. Preston Feight, chief executive officer, PACCAR Inc.; former Minister of Petroleum Mohsen Pak-nejad of Iran; President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo of Mexico; former President Nicolas Maduro Moros of Venezuela, who was captured, along with his wife Cilia Flores, in a
U.S. military operation in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 3 and exfiltrated to the U.S. for criminal processing in New York City; and King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia .
Categories: Addresses and Remarks : Maritime policy in Sparrows Point, MD.
Locations: Sparrows Point, MD.
Names: Borgschulte, Michael; Brose, Christian; Caine, J. Daniel; Cao, Hung; Eckley, Ryan; Feight, R. Preston; Feinberg, Steve; Gaucher, Rob; Grimm, Matt; Hegseth, Peter B.; Humphrey, Marlon; Jackson, Lamar; Jones, Felicia; Loop, Tyler; Luckey, Palmer F.; Lutnick, Howard W.; Maduro Moros, Nicolás; Moore, Nick; Pak-nejad, Mohsen; Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, King; Schimpf, Brian; Sheinbaum Pardo, Claudia; Steckman, Matthew; Vought, Russell T.; Xi Jinping.
Subjects: 2024 Presidential election; 2026 midterm elections; Acting Secretary of the Navy; Anduril Industries; Arctic security, improvement efforts; Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies; Automobile industry, strengthening efforts; China, President; China, relations with U.S.; COVID–19 vaccines; Defense industrial base, supply chain improvements; Deputy Secretary of War; Economic improvement; Football; Foreign nations, investment and business ventures in U.S.; Gulf of Mexico, U.S. renaming as Gulf of America; Hadrian Automation; Hanwha Defense U.S.A.; Illegal drugs, interdiction efforts; Iran, Minister of Petroleum; Iran, nuclear weapons program; Iran, U.S. airstrikes on nuclear facilities; Iran, U.S. military operations; Iran, U.S. naval blockade in Strait of Hormuz; Iran, U.S. naval blockade of sanctioned commercial transit through Strait of Hormuz; Job creation and growth; Joint Chiefs of Staff; Manufacturing industry, domestic investment; Maryland, President's visit; Mexico, President; Office of Management and Budget; Pharmaceutical supply chains, improvement efforts; Research and development; Russia, conflict in Ukraine; Saronic Technologies; Saudi Arabia, King; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of War; Semiconductor manufacturing; Shipbuilding, domestic expansion efforts; Special warrior dividend; Stock market; Suspected drug-trafficking vessels, U.S. airstrikes in Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific; Tariffs; U.S. Armed Forces, funding and equipment, improvement efforts; U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD; U.S. servicemembers, service and dedication; Ukraine, Russian invasion and airstrikes; Venezuela, oil supply and refining; Venezuela, relations with U.S.; Venezuela, U.S. assistance; Venezuela, U.S. military capture and exfiltration of President Maduro.
DCPD Number: DCPD202600680.