The move is one of many executive actions focused on the federal workforce enacted since Trump took office Monday afternoon. His other actions addressed DEI hiring more broadly, froze hiring in most executive agencies and directed a return to in-person work for many federal employees, among other directives.

What Trump has done with the cartels by designating them as terrorists is to put them in the same category as the Taliban or ISIS where the full weight of the U.S. government can be used. This will include using the military if needed.