Attorney General Todd Blanche brought the numbers to Pennsylvania on Monday. After a couple of hours with the officers “on the front line in Pennsylvania battling the drug crisis that we’ve endured for far too long,” Blanche laid out what President Trump’s drug fight is delivering. “DEA fentanyl seizures are up 14%, meth seizures are up 45%, and arrests are up 181% over the previous administration,” he said in remarks posted by the Justice Department. “And these actions are saving lives.”

The results go beyond arrests. “Since President Trump took office, lethal doses of fentanyl have decreased by 59 percentage points,” Blanche said, crediting the fact that “we shut down the border.” In Pennsylvania, he said, reported drug overdoses fell by nearly 20% from May 2025 to May of this year. “That’s just in one year.”

Blanche listed what the Justice Department has done in Pennsylvania in just the past two months: indictments against four members of a Philadelphia-area drug organization that was allegedly selling 1,600 individual bags of fentanyl every single day; sentences totaling 45 years for two Monroe County co-defendants convicted of conspiracy to traffic fentanyl resulting in the death of several people; and a 17-and-a-half-year sentence for a New Castle man who distributed fentanyl, heroin and cocaine while on federal supervised release, after his prior drug sentence was commuted by President Biden. His warning to dealers: “When we catch you, and we will.”

He said the wins come from teamwork, with the Justice Department, U.S. attorneys, the DEA, FBI, Marshals, ATF, HSI and DHS working alongside sheriffs, troopers, police officers and district attorneys. The department is investing locally too: with the support of Congressman Bresnahan, the Office of Justice Programs awarded $1 million to the Monroe County District Attorney’s Opioid Crime Section.

For Blanche, the fight is personal. “We take this fight seriously because we have a president who knows that there are real people who are affected by these crimes,” he said, noting that everyone on stage had met with the families of fentanyl victims. “We cannot rest until every one of those victims’ families and loved ones feel comforted and satisfied.” Under President Trump, the border is closed and the dealers are going to prison.