Republican lawmakers said that the United States needs to tackle the fentanyl crisis by going after the source of the deadly drug abroad and taking action domestically to safeguard against the effects of the drug.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), the chair of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) spoke about potential legislative solutions on “Fentanyl: America’s Silent Epidemic,” part of a DailyWire+ docu-series on The Divided States of Biden. In 2023, more than 100,000 Americans died from a drug overdose, with many of the deaths being related to fentanyl poisoning.
Gallagher said that the Biden administration needed to be doing more to push China to crack down on the illicit fentanyl coming out of its country and into the United States.
“For years, China has been the fentanyl factory of the world, and for years Xi Jinping has…
