01/16/2024
https://www.congress.gov...
"We are spending $25 billion a year to interdict the supply of drugs and you want an indication--you want a metric? Dropping from over $3,000 per gram to $100 per gram----"
"we are only interdicting between 5 and 10 percent of the illegal drugs coming into this country. We are not winning this war."
"we need to put that same type of committed, long-term effort into doing everything we can to reduce our insatiable demand for drugs"
"the primary root cause of our unsecure border is America's insatiable demand for drugs"