2023 State of the Union address: on Drugs
Joe Biden:
Work with couriers like Fed Ex to inspect for fentanyl
Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year. Let's launch a major surge to stop fentanyl production, sale, and trafficking, with more drug detection machines to inspect cargo and stop pills and powder at the border.
Working with couriers like Fed Ex to inspect more packages for drugs. Strong penalties to crack down on fentanyl trafficking.
Source: 2023 State of the Union speech as prepared for delivery
Feb 7, 2023
Donald Trump:
Drug cartels smuggle poison to kill our children
Here's the real State of the Union: Over the past two years under Biden, millions and millions of illegal aliens from 160 different countries have stormed across our southern border.
Drug cartels are now raking in billions of dollars from smuggling poison to kill our people and to kill our children, savage killers, rapists and violent criminals are being released from jail to continue their crime wave.
Source: Trump recorded prebuttal to 2023 State of the Union speech
Feb 7, 2023
Sarah Huckabee Sanders:
FactCheck: Fentanyl smuggled by US citizens, not Mexicans
[On reducing drug overdoses]: "Americans want common sense from their leaders, but in Washington, the Biden administration is doubling down on crazy. President Biden inherited ...the most secure border in history. 100,000 Americans a year are now killed
from drug overdoses, largely from fentanyl pouring across our southern border."FactCheck by PolitiFact, 2/8/23 [Gov. Huckabee Sanders implied that fentanyl overdoses would be reduced if the southern border were made more secure, but in
fact most fentanyl enters America by US citizens at secure border entry points]: "Mexico is the United States' primary source of illegally sourced fentanyl, per a report from the Rand Corp. It's worth noting that the vast quantity of the drug is
smuggled through official ports of entry in large trucks or cars, according to the Congressional Research Service. And most fentanyl is smuggled in by U.S. citizens, the libertarian Cato Institute said."
Source: PolitiFact FactCheck on 2023 State of the Union speech
Feb 8, 2023
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