FBI Adds a Fourth Search Location in Probe of Biden’s Classified Docs

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FBI Adds a Fourth Search Location in Probe of Biden’s Classified Docs

(Headline USA) The FBI searched the University of Delaware in recent weeks for classified documents as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of sensitive government records by President Joe Biden.

The search, first reported by CNN, was confirmed to the Associated Press by a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss it publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The person would not say whether anything was found.

The revelation comes in the wake of shocking reports from conservative media outlets that the school, which houses all of Biden’s senate archives, currently under lock and key, had received millions in Chinese donations starting in 2017, shortly after it opened its Biden Institute, which planned to host an annual event similar to the World Economic Forum.

Chinese funding of the Penn Biden Center, a global policy think tank through the University of Pennsylvania, came under scrutiny after classified documents were discovered in November in a D.C. branch where Hunter Biden had previously sought to share office space with some of his China-linked business associates.

After that revelation went public in January, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsel Robert Hur in what some believe is more of cover-up than criminal probe.

Unlike a parallel investigation involving former President Donald Trump, Biden’s personal lawyers have been given tremendous latitude to oversee and define the parameters of “voluntary” searches, including Biden’s two homes in Delaware, both of which resulted in the removal of undisclosed materials.

The FBI took six items that contained documents with classified markings during its January search of the Wilmington home, Biden’s personal lawyer has said.

Agents did not find classified documents at the Rehoboth Beach property but did take some handwritten notes and other materials relating to Biden’s time as vice president for review.

In 2011, Biden donated his records from his 36 years serving in the U.S. Senate to the University of Delaware, his alma mater. The documents arrived June 6, 2012, according to the university, which released photos of the numbered boxes being unloaded at the university alongside blue and gold balloons.

Despite several lawsuits demanding that the records be unsealed under the Freedom of Information Act, Delaware law allows the school to continue guarding them from public scrutiny. The terms of Biden’s donation stipulate that the records are to remain sealed until two years after he retires from public life.

Biden’s Senate records would not be covered by the Presidential Records Act, though prohibitions on mishandling classified information would still apply.

The White House referred questions to the Justice Department, which declined to comment. The University of Delaware also referred questions to the Justice Department.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Schiff’s Senate Aspirations May Be Dashed by Black-Woman Candidate

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Schiff’s Senate Aspirations May Be Dashed by Black-Woman Candidate

(Headline USA) With the questionable announcement of long-serving Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s retirement in 2024, a California senate race featuring at least three heavy-hitting Democrat lawmakers is shaping up.

It now seems poised to pit one of the party’s most notorious rising stars against one of its foremost platform priorities—identity politics—and call into question how great the Left’s commitment truly is to empowering long-marginalized black women.

U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee filed federal paperwork Wednesday to enter the race for the California seat held by Feinstein, alongside Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter.

Schiff, a former member of the influential House Intelligence Committee who led the two efforts to impeach former President Donald Trump, has already been endorsed by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Though Lee has not made a formal announcement, her entry into the contest is widely expected. She filed paperwork creating a Senate fundraising committee one day after Feinstein—at 89 the oldest member of Congress—announced she would step down after her term ends next year.

Lee “is filing preparatory paperwork and her announcement will come before the end of the month,” spokeswoman Katie Merrill said.

Lee, 76, is perhaps best known for being the only member of Congress to vote against the authorization for the use of military force after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

She is the highest-ranking black woman appointed to the House Democratic leadership, serving as co-chair of the Policy and Steering Committee.

She has long been on outspoken defender of abortion. In 2021, she was one of several members of Congress who shared personal testimony about their own abortions during a congressional hearing.

Lee became pregnant at age 16 in the mid-1960s. Abortion in California was illegal at the time, so a family friend helped send her to a “back-alley clinic in Mexico,” she said at the time.

She had no ill effects from the procedure, but she said many other women weren’t so lucky in that era.

“In the 1960s, unsafe septic abortions were the primary killer—primary killer—of African American women,” Lee said.

A Live Action article published in January 2021 noted that, in spite of the deadly toll of the coronavirus, abortion remained the leading overall cause of death globally in the year 2020, with some 42.7 million preborn infants killed.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Massive Meteorite Strikes Texas near Mission Area

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Massive Meteorite Strikes Texas near Mission Area

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Loud booms that echoed across south Texas Wednesday were reported by multiple agencies to be from the impact of a meteorite that hurtled through the sky and struck ground near Hidalgo County.

Law enforcement agencies received hundreds of calls from panicked residents who reported hearing loud explosions and seeing bright flashes in the sky. By late afternoon, Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra confirmed that the blast felt from the impact was from a meteorite striking west of McAllen, near Mission, Texas, but noted that the “the exact point of impact is unknown.”

Guerra and other law enforcement and emergency responders in the south Texas area reported no extensive damage or casualties, as of Wednesday evening.

Mission Police Chief Cesar Torres had requested air support from the Texas Department of Public Safety, according to ValleyCentral. Torres said that his department had received calls from hundreds of residents from the town, which is located just north of the Mexico-U.S. border, who “heard the earth shake.”

The meteorite crash came on the heels of several high-profile incidents, ranging from Chinese spy balloons, possible UFOs, derailed trains and toxic explosions, which have been left largely unexplained or addressed by officials.

Prior to Wednesday’s meteorite strike in Texas, a truck filled with nitric acid tipped over Tuesday in Tucson, Arizona.

The National Weather Service explained Wednesday’s aerial display and boom in Texas with an image from its Geostationary Lightning Mapper after receiving reports of a possible meteorite/fireball.

“For those asking what these images mean: It means there was a flash in the atmosphere that was bright enough for our NOAA satellites to detect at or around 5:23 p.m. today,” the NWS stated.

“Lady tells me: ‘For a One World Order, there must be a one world problem,” tweeted podcaster Dennis Michael Lynch in response to the meteorite strike. “So when Global Warming fell short, they changed it to Climate Change. When that didn’t work, they tried Covid. But Covid turned out to be like a flu. Now it’s UFOs. Don’t fall for the BS. Is she wrong?”

Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Milley Declares Victory over Russia, Says More Ukraine Largess Still Needed

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Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Milley Declares Victory over Russia, Says More Ukraine Largess Still Needed

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Even as U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley continued earlier this week to aggressively push for sending more funding, weapons and resources to Ukraine, he boldly declared that Russia had already “lost” its “barbaric” war of aggression.

“President Putin thought he could defeat Ukraine quickly, fracture the NATO alliance and act with impunity,” Milley said during a press briefing that followed a meeting with NATO defense ministers in Belgium.

“He was wrong. Ukraine remains free. They remain independent. NATO and its coalition has never been stronger,” Milley insisted, despite reports of Russia gearing up for a major offensive and Ukrainian forces slumping.

“In short, Russia has lost,” boasted America’s highest ranking military officer. “They’ve lost strategically operationally and tactically, and they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield.”

But that doesn’t mean America’s funding spigot that has already gushed billions of dollars into Ukraine should be capped or stopped. Milley continued to advocate for more largess, declaring that “until Putin ends his war of choice the international community will continue to support Ukraine with the equipment and capabilities it needs to defend itself.”

Milley might have an easier time convincing the ‘international community” of more funding for Ukraine, than U.S. lawmakers and taxpayers who have become increasingly skeptical as the war drags into its second year with no end in sight.

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., last week introduced the “Ukraine Fatigue Resolution” that calls for the U.S. to ”end its military and financial aid to Ukraine” and “urges all combatants to reach a peace agreement.”

The Pentagon’s own assessment tracks with Gaetz. As of last August, “Pentagon officials reported that United States munitions donated to Ukraine have severely depleted United States stockpiles, weakening United States readiness in the event of conflict,” according to the resolution.

That depletion compelled the U.S. to cut “a deal with South Korea to purchase thousands of rounds of 155mm ammunition, trying to offset the diminished domestic stockpiles after the United States has supplied Ukraine with nearly 1,000,000,000 rounds of munitions,” the resolution reported.

The resolution, which was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, was co-sponsored by GOP Reps. Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Anna Paulina Luna, Thomas Massie, Mary Miller, Barry Moore, Ralph Norman and Matt Rosendale.

“I would not send one more dollar to Ukraine. We’ve sent $100 billion already,” Gaetz told The Lars Larson Show. “Instead of protecting our people, protecting our border, protecting our economy and businesses we’ve decided to go flood a historically corrupt country with US cash.”

Gaetz noted the disturbing parallel to America’s last multi-year military and cash-burning foreign entanglement.

“Let’s not forget, the United State of America lost a 20-year war to goat-herders with rifles in Afghanistan,” Gaetz said. “And now we’re poking Russia, a nuclear power with a deranged madman in charge. It just doesn’t seem like a wise thing to do.”

House Judiciary Chair Subpoenas Big Tech CEOs for Censorship Records

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House Judiciary Chair Subpoenas Big Tech CEOs for Censorship Records

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, announced Wednesday that he has issued subpoenas to the CEOs of five big tech firms, seeking records about how they may have colluded with the U.S. government to censor speech.

The five chief executives to receive a subpoenas are Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Andy Jassy, Apple’s Tim Cook, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.

Jordan said in a press release that the subpoenas were necessary because numerous attempts to engage with the companies voluntarily since last December have been unsuccessful.

“We have asked for communications between Alphabet and the Executive Branch, internal Alphabet communications discussing communications from the Executive Branch, and Alphabet communications with third parties that may have been working with the Executive Branch, in addition to other key information,” Jordan told Pichai—a message he repeated to the other chiefs.

“Your response without compulsory process has been woefully inadequate.”

Jordan further juxtaposed the Big Tech firms’ lack response to the transparency coming from Twitter.

“Twitter recently set a benchmark for how transparent Big Tech companies can be about interactions with government over censorship. The Twitter Files have exposed how Big Tech and the federal government have worked hand in hand in ways that undermine First Amendment principles. Numerous internal documents from Twitter reflect the weaponization of the federal government’s power to censor speech online,” he said.

“It is necessary for Congress to gauge the extent to which this occurred at Alphabet as well.”

Jordan’s subpoenas follow last week’s Judiciary Committee hearing into Twitter’s role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story. There, former Twitter executives were hammered about their dubious decision to deem the Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation in the leadup to the 2020 presidential election.

Judiciary Committee members such as Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C. have remarked that the Twitter Files are likely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech-big government collusion.

In a recent interview, Bishop said Twitter is only a “peon” compared to tech giants such as Facebook and Google. Bishop said a full investigation is necessary to determine “how the people of the United States are having their choices and their destiny manipulated by a government that’s supposed to serve them.”

The Big Tech CEOs have until March 23 to respond to Jordan’s letter.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Woke Researchers Want to Replace ‘Mother,’ ‘Father’ with ‘Egg Donor,’ ‘Sperm Donor’

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Woke Researchers Want to Replace ‘Mother,’ ‘Father’ with ‘Egg Donor,’ ‘Sperm Donor’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) American and Canadian biologists urged the scientific community to stop recognizing biological sex, including so-called “binary terms” such as “male and “female,” “man” and “woman” and “mother” and “father.”

The woke Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Language Project decided to abolish the “colonialist” mindset of Western scientists by breaking down the English language because some snowflakes may think that it is offensive, according to the Post Millennial.

Instead of the terms “male” and “female,” the research group wants people to use terms that would never be considered offensive to people: “sperm-producing” and “egg-producing.” The “researchers” think that going along with the Orwellian narrative will help to avoid reenforcing “heteronormative views.” The terms “father” and “mother” should also be replaced with “parent,” “egg donor” and “sperm donor”.

“Amid a growing disciplinary commitment to inclusion in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB), it is critical to consider how the use of scientific language can harm members of our research community,” the mission written on the group’s website stated.

“To unite those of us working to revise harmful terminology in EEB, we introduce our grassroots, collective initiative called ‘The EEB Language Project.'”

Some of the project’s members who come from “prestigious” universities like Harvard, Princeton and the University of California system collaborated and wrote a paper in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution where they once again showcased their political ideology.

“Much of western science is rooted in colonialism, white supremacy and patriarchy, and these power structures continue to permeate our scientific culture.”

In the abstract of the Feb. 6 paper, the “scientists” wrote that this leftist effort is “particularly important for redressing the ongoing marginalization of many groups in EEB, including Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) communities; and disabled communities; among others.”

The Orwellian attempts to redefine language drew backlash from more rational minds in the scientific field.

“I think that when you characterize terms like male/female, mother/father as harmful you are abandoning science for ideological advocacy,” professor Frank Furedi of the University of Kent told the Daily Telegraph.

“Regardless of intent, the project of re-engineering language will cause confusion to many and the last thing that scientists need is a lack of clarity about the meaning of the words they use.”

Chris Cuomo Considered Mass Murder & Suicide after CNN Fired Him

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Chris Cuomo Considered Mass Murder & Suicide after CNN Fired Him

(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Television host Chris Cuomo said he felt so angry about being fired from CNN due to his passionate Italian blood that he wanted to “kill everybody,” including himself, Page Six reported.

“It’s something I had to accept, because I was going to kill everybody, including myself. Things can consume you,” Cuomo said on Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci, a podcast hosted by the former White House communications director.

“Italians are so passionate, and I really had to fight against that,” Cuomo explained about his rage-fueled compulsion.

Cuomo said he “makes a lot of mistakes” but has tried to improve himself since being fired.

Cuomo started seeing a therapist after losing the CNN job.

“There is damage that is relatable, there is damage that is unrelatable to people that I have to deal with, that I am working on,” he said.

CNN fired Cuomo in December 2021 after it became known that he had helped his brother, New York disgraced Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to navigate the sexual misconduct scandal that eventually forced him to retire in August 2021.

The comment that appeared most frequently on Twitter reminded Cuomo about red flag laws, which give police the authority to take weapons away from people deemed a danger to themselves or others.

But no federal officers will bust down Cuomo’s doors to search for weapons because he holds opinions that benefit America’s ruling class.

After CNN fired Cuomo, he signed a contract to host a primetime show on NewsNation, an outlet of Nexstar Media Group.

Cuomo has his own primetime show again, but he has fallen far. His CNN show drew about a million viewers each night, while his new show attracts about 63,000 viewers per episode.

Hawaii Businesswomen Launch Dating Site for Unvaxxed

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Hawaii Businesswomen Launch Dating Site for Unvaxxed

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) In the world of the COVID cult where asking your date whether one is vaccinated or not may be a deal breaker, two businesswomen from Hawaii decided to help people who are not brainwashed by Pfizer and other Big Pharma companies to find a like-minded spouse by creating a dating website.

Due to the tyrannical regimes implemented all around the world because of the COVID Wuhan virus, many people who decided to not inject themselves with the new experimental vaccine paid for this decision by losing jobs and relationships, according to the Epoch Times. Shelby Thomson, one of the founders of the website, said that the unvaccinated “didn’t have the option to say they were unvaccinated” to potential online dating partners.

“They were only allowed to be vaccinated. And you had to have this badge in your [online] profile,” which resulted in many people realizing that they were constantly “swiped left.”

In May 2021, Thomson and Heather Pyle created “Unjected” which was launched in the Google and Apple stores.

“We started seeing people wanting to find partners,” Thomson said about her unvaccinated friends.

However, you can’t oppose Big Pharma on the Big Tech platforms for too long. Very soon, Thomson and Pyle started receiving hate emails from the members of the COVID cult and negative coverage from mainstream propaganda. Soon after that, Apple decided to remove the app from the store, saying that it spreads the so-called “disinformation.”

“We tailored everything and played this chess game until it [met] Apple standards,” Thomson said. But kneeling before the woke mob never works.

“It took us until July 31 to get banned.”

Google tried to do the same thing, but Thomson and Pyle decided it wasn’t worth it, left that platform and launched Unjected.com through the web domain host GoDaddy in Aug. 2021.

“We decided—OK—the big-tech world is not our friend. They don’t want us to exist in this realm. They’ll always go out of their way to ensure we’re censored or taken down.”

Thomson said that the dating service boasts 110,000 subscriptions in 85 countries and 3,000 to 5,000 new clientele every month.

“Unjected was founded to help us easier connect in a world of medical discrimination and censorship,” Unjected’s online introduction stated.

“We all have a lot in common when it comes to being conscious about our choices, and we think that there are great connections to be made when like-minded people gather in the same social space.”

Ford Halts Line of Electric F-150s Due to Battery Failure

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Ford Halts Line of Electric F-150s Due to Battery Failure

(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) Ford Motor Co. has suspended deliveries of the new F-150 Lightning, an electric pickup truck, after final inspections showed that the vehicle’s batteries may fail.

“During a standard Lightning pre-delivery quality inspection, one vehicle displayed a battery issue,” Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg wrote in an email to the Epoch Times. “We believe we have identified the root cause of this issue.”

Ford stopped producing and shipping the F-150 Lightning when inspectors discovered the issue on Tuesday, but the electric pickups in circulation do not seem to have the same defect.

“We are not aware of any incidents of this issue in the field and do not believe F-150 Lightnings already in customers’ hands are affected by this issue,” Bergg wrote.

Ford produces the F-150 Lightning at the River Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan. The company will not produce or ship new vehicles for at least 10 days.

“We expect to conclude our investigation and apply what we learn to the truck’s battery production process; this could take a few weeks,” Bergg wrote.

Ford will hold onto finished F-150 Lightnings while the investigation determines whether the battery failure issue affected them and “while we work through engineering and process updates.”

The F-150 Lightning is the key to Ford’s transition to a fully electric fleet.

After a year and a half of pre-orders, customers have reserved more than 200,000 F-150 Lightnings, which will replace the top-selling F-150 pickup.

Since deliveries began in May 2022, Ford has shipped 15,680 Lightning pickups.

“The team is diligently working on the root cause analysis,” Bergg wrote to CNBC. She added that the delay ensures Ford is “doing the right thing” for its customers.

21 AGs Want Biden to Designate Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Orgs.

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(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Five months after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated two Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and called on President Joe Biden to do the same, 21 attorneys general also called on the president to do so.

The attorneys general sent a letter to the president and Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week after the president’s state of the union address in which he didn’t designate illicit fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction or designate the cartels as FTOs, requests previously made by attorneys general and Gov. Abbott.

Last September, Abbott issued an executive order designating the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and any similarly situated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations” under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. He also requested the president do likewise, the second time he’s made the request since April 2021. In his Sept. 21, 2022 letter, Abbott said since then, “There was no action, no response.”

“But if you are ready to make Americans safer,” he wrote the president, “it will be better late than never. As the number of American deaths continues to rise due to the cartels’ terrorist behavior, now is the time to act. We do not have more time to waste.”

Still receiving no response, he’s said, within one year of Biden’s presidency, fentanyl had killed nearly 20 times more people than those killed in terrorist attacks over decades.

Through Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, Texas law enforcement officers have seized over 360 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill more than everyone in the U.S. Florida law enforcement officers in just a few months last year also seized enough fentanyl to kill everyone in the state. Law enforcement officers in other states are seizing record amounts.

While Biden mentioned last week that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents had seized over 28,000 pounds of fentanyl, he didn’t mention they’ve done so since February 2021 or that in fiscal years 2021 and 2022, they’d seized enough fentanyl to kill nearly 5 billion people. Two milligrams, roughly the weight of a mosquito, is considered a lethal dose.

The attorneys general echoed Abbott’s concerns in their letter, pointing to the fentanyl crisis being facilitated by Mexican cartels manufacturing fentanyl and trafficking it, it’s precursors and other drugs laced with it through the southern border. They also point to the ruthless violence being committed by Mexican cartels on both sides of the border.

Mexican cartels are “assassinating rivals and government officials, ambushing, and killing Americans at the border, and engaging in an armed insurgency against the Mexican government,” the AGs write. “This dangerous terrorist activity occurring at our border will not abate unless we escalate our response.”

“The Mexican drug cartels threaten our national security beyond the sale of these deadly drugs,” they continue. “Over the past decade, Mexican drug cartels have developed well-organized armed forces to protect their reprehensible trade from rivals and from the Mexican government. The existence of such forces just across our southwestern land border, and the Mexican government’s inability to control them, pose a threat to our national security far greater than a typical drug-trafficking enterprise. That threat is made greater still by the known links between the Mexican drug cartels and [FTOs] like Hezbollah who already intend to do us harm. Our national security requires the federal government to disrupt this collaboration between cartels and terrorist groups.”

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares led a coalition of 21 attorneys general representing the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.

Miyares last year joined a coalition of 18 AGs led by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody calling on Biden to designate fentanyl as a WMD, about which he said, “To date, no action has been taken.”

In a separate statement, AG Moody said, “It’s evident that the Mexican drug cartels are terrorist organizations,” referring to them “trafficking deadly fentanyl directly across the border … killing tens of thousands of Americans,” and “fueling extreme violence at the southwest border and beyond.”

“Sadly, the Biden administration has only emboldened the cartels to commit even more crimes on both sides of the border,” she said, citing a story published by The Center Square, about a recent “cartel-style execution [that] occurred in California that reportedly involved a Mexican drug cartel.”

She’s also called on the president to hold Mexico and China accountable for their role in creating the fentanyl crisis and has yet to hear back.

The AGs argue the cartels’ “recent embrace of extreme violence further justifies their designation as an FTO.” Under 8 US Code, Section 1189, the Secretary of State may designate an organization as an FTO, which gives state and federal agencies the authority to freeze assets, deny entry to cartel members and pursue stricter punishments.

Instead, President Biden said his plan to address the fentanyl crisis involved having “more drug detection machines,” implementing greater inspection of cargo to “stop pills and powder [coming in through] the border,” “working with couriers, like FedEx, to inspect more packages for drugs,” and implementing “strong penalties to crack down on fentanyl trafficking.”

In response, Texas lawmakers blasted his plan, and Gov. Abbott said, “One again, President Biden proved Texas leads, and Washington follows.”

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