Friday, February 7, 2025

GOP seeks to corner Democrats with fentanyl bill

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said if President Trump were serious about stopping fentanyl, he wouldn't have pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark web marketplace Silk Road who was convicted of charges including money laundering and drug trafficking. 

"You know what would help end the illegal fentanyl problem here? Would have been Donald Trump not pardoning a drug kingpin, essentially, who brought in illegal fentanyl into our country who was sentenced to life in prison in a federal court," McGovern said on the House floor. "If we're serious here about talking about dealing with fentanyl, we should at least be all be able to say what the president did was wrong." …

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