Turning the tide on fentanyl

I addressed the House Natural Resources Committee to sound the alarm on a crisis that's hitting rural America especially hard: fentanyl trafficking. From Colville to Yakima, drug cartels are targeting rural areas and tribal lands with deadly precision.

This isn't just a problem for rural and tribal law enforcement. It's a public emergency in our own backyard.

In late July, a Mexican national was sentenced to 19 years in prison after federal, state, local, and Tribal law enforcement seized 161,000 fentanyl-laced pills, 80 pounds of methamphetamine, 6 pounds of heroin, over 2 pounds of cocaine,...