The fact that we now are around 10,000 illegal entries daily, something has got to give there because it is a crisis beyond just the humanitarian one and it is impacting every State.

If we don't do that, we are going to be chasing our tail on this.

The CDC has found a 53 percent increase in overdose deaths to synthetics like fentanyl among older Americans.

That is a tragedy, and it is also, when you look at the fact that it has gone up five times in three years, that ought to be an eye opener to Americans across the country about what open borders have done in terms of creating something…

Today we are shining a light on older Americans who can easily be overlooked when it comes to substance use.

Until China accepts the responsibility that it is in a lethal business and gets rid of it, the cartels will still try to probably get it from somewhere else.

It is sad when you have to have the focal point being older Americans on a topic like this.

The Chinese Communist Party knows what it is doing. The cartels lap it up because they know how much money they have been making off of it.

It ought to be clear in both cases then, the Chinese Communist Party using Mexican cartels, and we are the brunt of it. Something has got to give.

shame on us because that is doubling down on what we know is going to be a difficult thing to solve

It would be a moot point if you didn't have China producing all the precursors and Mexican cartels being a distributor of them.

I wrestled with it to where I was at the point of frustration.

the Chinese Communist Party ought to do the world a favor and pull their production

We need to sound the alarm about how synthetics like that known can poison older Americans' drugs.

It means finally getting serious about border security by stopping weak policies that invite chaos and turn every State into a border State.

We thank Ranking Member Braun for his leadership on the Reentry Act, which would promote continuous access to care for dually eligible individuals.

We got to reduce the supply of synthetic drugs, raise awareness among seniors, and improve data on synthetic drug use by seniors.

This bill will expand patients' access to methadone, a vital medication for treating opioid use disorder by scrapping outdated prescription rules.