He didn't watch the speech and Yahoo took this somewhat out of context.
He was talking about the open border and the Fentanyl crisis...we've lost over 100k people YTD to the drug. China sends raw materials to Mexico where it's made and distributed north.
He wants capital punishment for people who sell drugs that kill people.
But since when have any facts ever mattered to the left...?
The 107k number you're claiming isn't a YTD number that was last year's total
hence the value of actually citing the source of your opinions/beliefs
Because in the case of trumpanzees they're usually wrong
Opioid Crisis: Critics Say Trump Fumbled Response To Another Deadly Epidemic
October 29, 20205:01 AM ET
When then-presidential candidate
Donald Trump spoke in Manchester, N.H., a week before the 2016 election, he said the opioid crisis was destroying lives and shattering families.
"We are going to stop the inflow of drugs into New Hampshire and into our country 100%," Trump promised.
It was a major campaign issue. Overdoses were surging in battleground states key to the election, like New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
In 2017 — Trump's first year in office — more than 42,000 Americans died from overdoses linked to heroin, fentanyl and prescription opioids,
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Before coronavirus hit, opioids were widely viewed as the nation's top public health crisis.
Trump declared a public health emergency in October 2017, noting that overdoses had joined gun violence and car crashes as a leading cause of death in America.
"No part of our society, not young or old, rich or poor, urban or rule has been spared this plague," he said.
Significant accomplishments followed. Trump signed
legislation in 2018 that boosted federal funding for drug treatment. During trade talks with China last year, Trump pushed to slow that country's exports of fentanyl.
"The federal government has taken some important steps to increase access to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder," said Beau Kilmer, who heads the Rand Corporation's Drug Policy Research Center.
Kilmer also credits Trump for "pressuring China to better regulate some of its synthetic opioids."
A public health emergency, but no clear leadership
But while some progress was made, critics point to serious missteps behind the scenes that hampered federal efforts, including the decision to
sideline and defund the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP.
An internal memo acquired by NPR in 2017 found the White House was contemplating a 94% cut in resources to the agency, tasked since 1988 with developing and coordinating the nation's drug addiction efforts.
That decision was later reversed but Trump handed leadership of the opioid response to a series of political appointees, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and White House adviser Kellyanne Conway.
"This made it difficult for people to understand, you know, who's leading and coordinating the effort on opioids," Kilmer said.
Still, there seemed to be some success, with opioid deaths dipping slightly in 2018. "This sign of progress is an example of what can happen when an administration prioritizes an issue," said ONDCP director
Jim Carroll in a statement earlier this year.
But in 2019, the number of overdoses surged again to a new record with more than 50,000 opioid-related fatalities. The CDC's preliminary data shows another big increase in deaths during the first four months of 2020.
U.S. went two years without a national strategy
Researchers also say fentanyl has continued to spread fast, despite interdiction efforts, contributing to more overdose deaths in the western United States where the synthetic opioid had been scarce.
In December, the Government Accountability Office
issued a report blasting the administration for failing to come up with a coherent national opioid strategy as required by law.
"ONDCP did not issue a national drug control strategy for either 2017 or 2018," the GAO concluded.
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