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2024 Republicans talked a big game on the debate stage, but the truth is: MAGA Republicans have fought against the investments President Biden is making to fight against the fentanyl crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAGA Republicans in Congress have proposed cuts that could lead to thousands fewer border patrol agents and allow thousands more pounds of fentanyl and other drugs into the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cBates claimed that the bill, if enacted, would result in the termination of 2,000 Border Patrol agents, slash the budget of the Drug Enforcement Agency and allow 150,000 pounds of cocaine, 900 pounds of fentanyl, 2,000 pounds of heroin and 17,000 pounds of methamphetamine into the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government Executive<\/a>: \u201cIn response to inquiries from congressional Democrats, agency officials have suggested the cuts included in the Limit, Save and Grow Act would force layoffs, furloughs, hiring freezes or other means to trim workforce costs. Customs and Border Protection said, for example, it would be forced to shed 2,400 front-line agents and officers, while the Justice Department said the FBI would lose 11,000 agents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden\u2019s budget proposed major investments in border security, and he signed into law a major funding boost for border patrol last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA Today<\/a>: \u201cIn his proposed 2024 budget, the president would allocate nearly $25 billion to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It\u2019s a nearly $800 million increase over the 2023 enacted level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government Executive<\/a>: \u201cBorder Patrol is in line for a whopping 17% funding boost, which includes the funding for 300 new Border Patrol agents that the Biden administration had repeatedly stressed as necessary to handle the record-high numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, the White House requested nearly $800 million in additional funding to fight drug addiction and overdoses.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC<\/a>: \u201cThe White House on Thursday asked Congress for nearly $800 million in additional funding to fight drug addiction and overdoses, which killed more than 100,000 people in the U.S. last year, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fentanyl seizures at the border began to spike under the Trump administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FactCheck.org<\/a>: \u201cBut the fiscal year comparisons obscure the fact that the steep rise in seized fentanyl started in mid-2020 under Trump, as the chart above illustrates. In fact, 36% of the fentanyl seized in FY 2021 was during the first four months of that fiscal year, when Trump was president for a full 111 of those 123 days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FactCheck.org<\/a>: \u201cThe amount seized accelerated dramatically toward the end of fiscal 2020, while Trump was still president, when there was a 190% increase from 233 pounds seized in May to 676 pounds in June. May 2020 was the last time there were fewer than 600 pounds of fentanyl seized at the southwest border in a single month, and the largest monthly haul to date was 1,171 pounds in October 2020, the start of the 2021 fiscal year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 Republicans talked a big game on the debate stage, but the truth is: MAGA Republicans have fought against the investments President Biden is making to fight against the fentanyl crisis. 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