How long do families have to wait before Biden takes the fentanyl crisis seriously?
House Republicans requested a meeting with Biden on the crisis 48 days ago. They are requesting another today. Since their first letter was ignored by the administration, “more than 7,500 Americans have died from fentanyl-related deaths.”
The leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45 is fentanyl overdose. An important cause of this tragedy? The DEA says Mexican cartels are “killing Americans with fentanyl at catastrophic and record rates like we've never seen before.”
But where is Biden? Insisting the crisis is not “important” enough. As Theresa Juillerat, who lost her son to a fentanyl overdose, said, that is “an insult…[the lives of victims] do not seem to be significant enough to matter to President Biden.”
