And we will stop the fentanyl,” Trump said during a recent campaign appearance in Michigan.
But fentanyl activists say Trump is at least drawing attention to the issue, whereas the Biden administration, they say, is not.
By 2017, the year Trump took office, there were 28,000 deaths from fentanyl.
In 2021, during Biden’s first year of office — when many Americans were still stuck at home amid the pandemic — fentanyl deaths rose by 23% to more than 70,000.
Trump repeatedly blames the increase in fentanyl deaths on the influx of 10 million migrants who crossed the border during the Biden.
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