The House recently passed the bipartisan END FENTANYL Act aimed at modernizing outdated Customs and Border Protection (CBP) policies to address the opioid epidemic, particularly focusing on the deadly drug fentanyl. The bill's passage has been met with widespread approval, highlighting the urgent need for more effective prevention, treatment, recovery, and interdiction efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis. Senators and representatives have emphasized the devastating impact of fentanyl on communities across the United States, with many deaths traced back to China and Mexico. Efforts to tackle this issue include questioning intelligence officials on protective measures for communities, with Maine losing more than one life a day to opioids. FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed efforts to stop CCP-run drug production systems. Additionally, there's bipartisan support for legislation to crack down on drug smuggling and concerns over drug traffickers cutting xylazine into fentanyl. The push for installing high-tech scanners at the southern border, currently unused due to lack of funding, underscores the critical need to stop the flow of fentanyl and other dangerous drugs into the country.
Fentanyl is tearing apart families all across America, including in my home of Orange County. Partisan bickering only holds back progress that can keep our communities safe. Let's put the partisanship aside and get to work to stop fentanyl trafficking.https://t.co/XJqxN0gAur
We have high-tech scanners that can detect fentanyl before it crosses our southern border – but they’re sitting unused because Congress hasn’t allocated the funds to install them. I’m leading the push to secure this critical funding & help stop the flow of illicit fentanyl. https://t.co/QUIGvNGKol
Drug traffickers are cutting xylazine into fentanyl to make a deadly drug even cheaper to produce. We’ve already seen fentanyl's devastation in Ohio — we can’t sit around and wait for xylazine to make things worse. We must take action & pass our bill to keep Ohioans safe. https://t.co/n8yifZHM4f
Fentanyl destroys communities and families, and we need to do EVERYTHING we can to stop the flow of this and other dangerous drugs through the southern border. I’m proud to see that my bipartisan bill to crack down on drug smuggling at the border will soon become law. https://t.co/IectdGjEFP
Prompted by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), #FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday told Senators his organization is working to tackle #CCP-run #marijuana, fentanyl and meth production systems at an upper chamber Hearing on Worldwide Threats. https://t.co/NSgbksspYQ https://t.co/mtQBliKPWI
Maine loses more than one life a day to deadly opioids, with most tracing back to China & Mexico. When intelligence officials testified yesterday, I questioned them on what they're doing to protect our communities & stressed why the House should pass the FEND off Fentanyl Act. https://t.co/5EhCwt8JOP
This is really good news. More funding for prevention, treatment and recovery, and more money for interdiction of fentanyl at the border. Fentanyl is the crisis of our generation. @ONDCP @DrGupta46 https://t.co/RTdEFcjuW5
In case you missed it, last week the House passed my bipartisan bill, the END FENTANYL Act, to modernize outdated @CBP policies addressing the opioid epidemic. Too many families have lost loved ones to this deadly drug, and we must act now. https://t.co/YyyQvgI4DB