House Democrats have blocked a bill that seeks to crack down on deadly fentanyl as it floods American communities.
Every year, more than 100,000 Americans die from drug overdoses and poisonings, many of which are linked to fentanyl.
However, Democrats have blocked a plan to tackle the crisis as the deadly substance continues to flow almost exclusively from the United States-Mexico border into American communities.
This week, 220 House Democrats blocked consideration for Rep. Michelle Fischbach’s (R-MN) Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act.
The legislation seeks to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
Such a change would make it permanently illegal to sell fentanyl-related substances.
In April, House Democrats blocked consideration of similar legislation that would have cracked down on fentanyl-related substances.
Consistent blockage of bills to combat fentanyl overdoses and poisonings comes as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials have warned parents to carry Naloxone in case their child is overdosing on fentanyl.
The warning is in response to concerns that the Mexican drug cartels, trafficking most of all of the China-manufactured fentanyl into the U.S., are targeting children by packaging tens of thousands of fentanyl pills in Skittles and Nerds candy bags along with vape pens.
Most recently, in Phoenix, Arizona, law enforcement investigators seized nearly a million fentanyl pills in a stash house.
Just two milligrams of fentanyl can kill one person.
In April, the CDC reported that more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the prior 12 months.
Nearly two-thirds of those deaths were linked to fentanyl.
In Ohio, alone, 81 percent of drug overdose deaths were linked to fentanyl in 2020.
This is an increase from 2019, 2018, and 2017, when fentanyl was linked to about 76 to 71 percent of drug overdose deaths.
Months ago, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official Anne Milgram said there was enough fentanyl trafficked into American communities last year, via the southern border, “to kill every American” citizen.
Some Senate Republicans have suggested transferring the use of the CDC’s Title 42 authority at the southern border, which allows officials to quickly deport many illegal aliens, from a COVID-19 function to a combating fentanyl maneuver.
