Cheap drones appear to be the new weapon of choice for criminals and terror groups so the Trump administration is making it clear: America’s airspace is no longer a free-for- all. After watching Iranian-backed proxies like Hamas and the Houthis turn low-cost drones into lethal tools abroad, President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism team is racing to harden the homeland. The lesson from the Russia-Ukraine war and the October 7 attack in Israel was blunt: small drones can cause big damage.

According to a report from Just the News, Sebastian Gorka, senior counterterrorism official at the National Security Council, says a new interagency task force is meeting monthly to build a national counter-drone strategy. His summary? “Idiots and evildoers will not be allowed to fly drones in U.S. airspace.”

Translation: expect more American-made drones, more counter-drone tech, and fewer purchases from Chinese manufacturers – which was idiocy to begin with. The administration is pushing an “America First” contracting model to ensure the tools protecting U.S. skies are built here – not imported from strategic rivals.

Concerns over drone attacks have ramped up following unexplained sightings near Trump’s Bedminster property and other incidents at home and abroad during the Biden administration. With major global events like the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics on the horizon, officials are looking to get ahead of potential threats.

Just last week, the Department of Defense disabled what was thought to be cartel- operated drones that crossed into U.S. airspace near El Paso, briefly grounding flights. Emerging countermeasures reportedly include directed-energy and laser systems – high-tech solutions to increasingly low-cost aerial threats.

The FBI has also put in “significant time and resources into developing our counter- drone capabilities and growing coordination with law enforcement on counter UAS (unmanned aircraft system) tech across the country,” FBI Director Kash Patel said. This is about training law enforcement in detecting and mitigating drone threats says Just the News.

Drones may be cheap and neutralizing them isn’t. But if Trump has his way (and he often does), the next hostile aircraft entering American airspace will find out the hard way that buzzing the homeland is NOT a good idea.