WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced the Break Up Suspicious Transactions of Fentanyl Act, or the BUST FENTANYL Act, which would crack down on the import of deadly fentanyl and its precursors flowing from China, to Mexico, and across our borders.
“With the support of the Chinese government, China remains the single greatest source of fentanyl and synthetic opioid precursors to Mexican cartels. These opioids then come across our southern border and kill over 100,000 Americans every year. This needs to end and the perpetrators need to be held accountable,” said Senator Risch. “The BUST FENTANYL Act will leverage the economic might of the United States against these criminals in China to make them think twice before importing drugs that harm our communities.”
“We must use every tool at our disposal to cut off the flow of fentanyl, which has caused a devastating crisis in communities across New Hampshire and the country,” said Ranking Member Shaheen. “China is the primary supplier of fentanyl precursors fueling this epidemic, and it has not done enough to curb the export of these chemicals to Mexican transnational criminal groups who seek to traffic fentanyl into the U.S. The BUST FENTANYL Act will strengthen our ability to hold Chinese entities accountable and disrupt the supply chains enabling this crisis. I’m proud to join Chairman Risch in this bipartisan effort to confront the fentanyl epidemic head-on to protect American lives.”
The BUST FENTANYL Act will:
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