President Donald Trump announced that he has appointed Sara Carter as the next Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
“As our next Drug Czar, Sara will lead the charge to protect our nation, and save our children from the scourge of drugs,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Carter thanked the president and said she was thrilled to be joining the administration when she re-posted Trump’s Truth Social post on X.
“It is truly an honor to serve President Donald J. Trump and be part of an administration committed to putting America first,” Carter wrote. “America’s greatest resource is our people and it will be up to each and every one of us to do our part – I promise you I will never stop fighting.”
As a journalist, Carter contributed to Fox News and covered the border extensively, especially when immigration laws were more relaxed under the Biden administration.
Because of the enormous amount of drug and human trafficking that is taking place, she called for stricter border regulations.
In a post on X, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., congratulated Carter. Blackburn said the new drug czar would “fight tirelessly” to keep Americans safe, and he praised Carter’s efforts on the border.
“Congratulations to @SaraCarterDC on becoming Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy! Sara is an expert on the border and the crisis it has created for drug trafficking. This issue has put Tennesseans in harm’s way for far too long, but Sara will fight relentlessly as Drug Czar to keep our loved ones safe,” Blackburn wrote.
Texas Department of Public Safety Spokesperson Lt. Chris Olivarez also congratulated Carter and praised her appointment, saying it was “GREAT for the country.”
“CONGRATULATIONS, @SaraCarterDC!!! I genuinely appreciate your friendship and overwhelming support for Texas over the years. This is an excellent opportunity for you to effect change and help so many families who have lost loved ones due to deadly illicit drugs. This is GREAT for the country,” he wrote.
President Trump has said that America is “back” while he talks about his many accomplishments, some of which have been controversial, since taking office two months ago.
Through a series of executive orders and actions, Trump has quickly increased his executive powers, questioned long-standing government policies, and cut the size of the federal workforce by a large amount during his second term as president, Fox News reported.
A count from Fox News also shows that Trump has signed about 100 executive orders since his inauguration on January 20. This is a much higher rate than any recent president had in their first few weeks in office.
Even though the president says “a lot of great things are happening,” the most recent polls show that many Americans don’t agree with his optimistic view of his job.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll done this past weekend (March 22–23) found that 46% of those asked liked Trump, while 51% didn’t think he was doing a good job of leading the country. The poll asked just over 1,000 adults across the country questions.
The poll was mostly done before the controversy over top White House national security officials talking about sensitive operational details of an upcoming U.S. military strike in Yemen on the messaging app Signal, which may have been against federal law.
There were a few more votes for Trump in the most recent national poll from March 14–17 by Fox News. With 49% saying they liked the job the president was doing and 51% saying they didn’t, Americans seemed to have mixed feelings about it.
The most recent national polls, which inquired about the president’s approval ratings, reveal that Trump’s ratings remain relatively low. Since the beginning of his second term, when the average of Trump’s polls showed that the president was approved of in the low 50s and disapproved of in the mid-40s, his numbers have gone down a little.
The economy and worries that Trump’s tariffs on America’s top trading partners will cause more inflation are both factors in the drop. For the majority of his presidency, former President Joe Biden’s approval ratings were significantly impacted by this major issue.
The poll from Fox News shows that 49% of people agree with the president. This is the same level of approval that Trump had at his all-time high in Fox News polls, which he last reached in April 2020, near the end of his first term in office. This is six points more than where he was at this point in his first term (43% approval in March 2017).
Most polls showed that Trump’s approval ratings were almost always negative during his first term in office.
“Keep these numbers in perspective. The numbers he’s averaging right now are still higher than he was at any point during his first presidency,” veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse told Fox News.
Daron Shaw, who serves as a member of the Fox News Decision Team and is the Republican partner on the Fox News Poll, highlighted that “the difference is largely a function of the consolidation of the Republican base.”
“The party’s completely solidified behind him,” added Shaw, a politics professor and chair at the University of Texas, who noted that Trump’s current rock-solid GOP support was not the case at the start of the first term, when he had troubles with some Republicans.
It was also made clear by Newhouse that Trump’s Republican “base is still strongly behind him.”
