Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is urging the Biden administration to designate fentanyl as a biological and chemical weapon and to impose sanctions on China for its involvement in exacerbating the U.S. drug crisis. Banks emphasized that the Chinese Communist Party has the capability to halt the flow of fentanyl to the U.S. and Mexican drug cartels but chooses not to, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Americans annually.
Banks has introduced a bill to amend the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, which mandates the president to enforce sanctions on foreign entities that knowingly contribute to another country's possession or use of chemical and biological weapons.
