GOP Reps: Stopping Communist China’s Plan To Poison America With Fentanyl Starts With Securing The Border, Sanctions

Communist China is taking advantage of the Biden administration’s open border policies to poison hundreds of thousands of Americans with fatal fentanyl.

Witnesses and members of the Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions wove a terror-inducing tale in a Thursday hearing about the United States’ No. 1 rival, communist China, leveraging the cartels that control Mexico to advance their money laundering efforts and harm Americans in the process.

“This is not drug trafficking,” witness Jason Grellner, vice president of healthcare at Evolv Technology, testified. “This is an attack on the United States. And the minute that we understand that and we go at it as an attack on the United States.”

In 2021 alone, 70,601 Americans died due to synthetic opioid overdoses, while drug overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in the U.S. Most of those deaths can be attributed to fentanyl, one of the most potent, lucrative, and lethal drugs on the black market.

Just last week, the Drug Enforcement Administration warned Americans that illicit drug producers have begun mixing fentanyl with xylazine, a “powerful sedative” that resists lifesaving opioid overdose treatments like naloxone.

One gram of fentanyl, about the size of a pack of table sugar, can kill approximately 500 people. Because of its powerful punch and small size, cartels often see smuggling fentanyl and fentanyl-laced products as a means to make more money with less risk.

In 2022, Customs and Border Protection seized