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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is pushing the Biden administration to classify fentanyl as a biological and chemical weapon, and to sanction China for its role in fueling the U.S. drug crisis.
“The Chinese Communist Party is the largest police state in the world. If they wanted to stop the flow of fentanyl from inside their border to the U.S. and Mexican drug cartels, they could do it overnight,” Banks told Fox News Digital. “Instead, they are sending this deadly opioid to kill tens of thousands of military and working-aged Americans every year to destroy our communities and economy at levels only seen by weapons of mass destruction. They must be held accountable.”
His bill would amend the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, which requires the president to impose sanctions on foreign entities that knowingly contributed to another country’s stock or use of chemical and biological weapons.
CHINA PUSHING US FENTANYL CRISIS, HOUSE PANEL REPORT REVEALS
Rep. Jim Banks, left, is pushing the Biden administration to classify fentanyl as a biological and chemical weapon. (Getty Images)
It comes shortly after the House select committee on China, of which Banks is a member, released a bombshell report accusing China of worsening the ongoing fentanyl crisis in the U.S.
The committee found that China’s Communist government offered subsidies to companies that manufacture fentanyl precursors and other synthetic drugs, as long as those products are being sold outside of China.
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A bombshell House report accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of overseeing his government’s subsidy program for companies making fentanyl precursors. (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)
The program has been in place since 2018 and did not stop even after President Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in November 2023. In fact, the committee found that China increased those…
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