President Donald Trump‘s shutdown of the southern border has undone some of the damage caused by former President Joe Biden, and it has weakened the United States’s two biggest enemies: the Chinese Communist Party and Mexican drug cartels.
On Wednesday, the House passed the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act, which will hinder the manufacturing of fentanyl in China to prevent it from being laundered by cartels through the southern border.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), a strong supporter of Trump’s border enforcement, told the Washington Examiner that the bill’s passage was timely because the U.S. is “in a conflict with China. China sees itself at war with us. We generally look at them benevolently, but fortunately, Donald Trump is in charge, and he realizes the world needs to work a little bit differently.”
“This bill is going to create a lot more penalties, create more sanctions, put more restrictions on people, it’s going to basically raise the stakes and raise the penalty to China for what they’re doing,” Fine added.
Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), a loyalist to Trump, introduced the bill in an attempt to empower the Trump administration’s ability to impose sanctions on Chinese entities that engage in the manufacturing or distribution of fentanyl and refuse to cooperate with U.S. counternarcotics efforts.
Efforts such as Barr’s legislation have allowed Trump to become the first president to take on the CCP and Mexican drug cartels at the same time. Under the previous administration, the cartels, along with the CCP and anybody else who wanted to take advantage of the U.S., did so because of its weak leadership.
“The Democrats controlled the White House for the last four years, and they didn’t do it. Fentanyl is not a problem that cropped up since Donald Trump became President. It’s been a problem for years, and they didn’t do it,” Fine said.
In 2021 alone, over 80,000 Americans died from a fentanyl overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As stated by Fine, Biden allowed China to increase its fentanyl distribution during his term because he “hates America” and China had only one priority in mind: “kill Americans.”
He is right. There is no other explanation for why every bill relating to limiting the flow of fentanyl introduced during the Biden administration never even made it to a floor vote.
For example, in 2023, Congress saw the death of the HALT Fentanyl Act and the Stop Fentanyl at the Border Act, sending a message to anyone else who introduced a similar bill that it would be unsuccessful.
Even though in 2024 the Biden White House said “disrupting the supply of illicit fentanyl and other synthetic drugs is a core priority,” its actions proved different.
Other than creating another pharmaceutical drug, which really aids big pharma lobbyists, the Biden administration did not pass any legislation that stopped illicit fentanyl from infiltrating U.S. streets. Protecting American lives was simply not a priority for Biden.
Now, the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act bill, which passed last night, might not fully reverse course, but it will certainly give the U.S. a grip on things.
“Everything we do now moves the ball down the field,” Fine told the Washington Examiner.
In the past, the ball was going backward.
Now, for the first time in four years, drug cartels have finally begun to feel the damage done to their pockets.
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Walter Slosar, the interim border chief for El Paso, recently said that if you “extrapolate all the data” from their stops at the southern border, you would notice how ICE is already regularly costing them over a billion dollars.
These efforts show that we are reversing course because we finally have a president who prioritizes saving American lives.