'Deadly': Rep. Chip Roy Issues Warning on Fentanyl Crisis

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

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A Texas congressman is sounding the alarm over how fatal even the smallest amount of fentanyl can be as the lethal drug continues to pour into the United States. "People don't understand how deadly fentanyl is. A sugar packet, a Sweet'N Low packet of fentanyl could kill, in its pure form, all of the people in a crowded room—say a hundred people," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, says. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that 2 milligrams of fentanyl can kill someone depending on their size, drug usage history, and tolerance. "You don't understand how particularly dangerous it is until you read stories about, for example, somebody who is overdosing from fentanyl, or frankly they're poisoned by fentanyl. And then someone tries to perform CPR on them. And then they go into cardiac arrest from the transitive property of having [performed] CPR," Roy, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, says. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized about 10,600 pounds of fentanyl this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, compared to about 11,200 pounds last fiscal year, The Daily Signal reported. Roy joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the ongoing crisis on the southern border, Anthony Fauci's plans to retire this winter, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's handling of monkeypox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A federal government that is choosing very specifically to not enforce our laws, to release
0:08.0	people into the United States, supposedly in the name of compassion, but in fact to the
0:13.5	detriment of the United States.
0:21.0	This is the Daily Signal podcast for Wednesday, August 24.
0:24.8	I'm Samantha Rank.
0:26.7	And that was Representative Chip Roy discussing the ongoing Southern Border Crisis.
0:32.7	Recent reporting shows US Customs and Border Protection has already seized about 10,600 pounds
0:38.9	of fentanyl this fiscal year, which ends September 30.
0:43.2	Congressman Chip Roy of the 21st Congressional District of Texas joins the show today to discuss
0:48.4	the border and drug crisis and Dr. Anthony Fauci's plans to retire in December.
0:54.4	But before we get to my conversation with Representative Roy, from all of us at the Daily
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1:34.3	Now stay tuned for my conversation with Congressman Chip Roy right after this.
1:44.2	We've reached a critical point in American history.
1:47.0	Capitol Hill has become ground zero for pushing back against the left and we want to equip
1:51.4	you for a career there.
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