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... talk about a victim of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, of the 100,000 individuals in this country who die every single year of fentanyl. So I do think something that's going on with PBS, the public broadcasting stations in this country, including cable news as well, is ...
... going to go to protecting people in the future, right, preventing addiction, healing people who are currently addicted, helping people still caught up in the fentanyl crisis that's raging across the United States. That's going to be -- most of the $7.4 billion will go to that kind ...
... to combat the crisis. In the early 2000s, most opioid deaths were linked to prescription drugs, including OxyContin. Since then, heroin and then illicitly produced fentanyl became the biggest killers. In some years, the class of drugs was linked to more than 80,000 deaths, but that number dropped sharply ...
... its income tax cuts. Canada and Mexico face separate tariffs of as much as 25% that Trump put into place under the auspices of stopping fentanyl smuggling, through some products are still protected under the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement signed during Trump's first term. The Trump administration ...
... three days before Inauguration Day. The pair discussed trade then, as well as Trump’s demands that China do more to prevent the synthetic opioid fentanyl from entering the United States. Trump had long expressed optimism about the prospects for a major deal, before his post suggesting Xi was making ...
... has the power to do so under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA. He justified this by saying the trade deficit and fentanyl crisis, which he blames on Mexico, Canada and China, pose a national emergency. But a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of ...
... I think getting -- the big one is naloxone and Narcan. There's this medication that gets into the community where people can literally reverse a fentanyl overdose or an opioid overdose. Before that was there, people just died. And now even many of the people in severe addiction that I ...
... federal taxpayer funding, is going to a variety of programs, including supportive housing and harm reduction efforts, such as providing materials to test drugs for fentanyl, the biggest driver of overdoses now. But what each state will do with that money is currently at issue.“States can either say, ‘We ...
... want to keep the tariff slow. And it's very hard to know what those are. TikTok deal maybe. The Chinese will promise to stop fentanyl. But we have already had the administration say it's successfully stopped fentanyl. They will promise to buy more U.S. goods. They promised ...
... by Gallego, who beat Republican Kari Lake in last fall's tight Senate race, calls for hiring more Border Patrol agents; using technology to stop fentanyl smuggling; reforming the asylum system; adding more ways for people to come to the U.S.; and a pathway to citizenship for some immigrants ...
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