Sec. 3002. Sense of Congress
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It is the sense of Congress that— the proliferation of fentanyl is causing an unprecedented surge in overdose deaths in the United States, fracturing families and communities, and necessitating a comprehensive policy response to combat its lethal flow and to mitigate the drug’s devastating consequences; the trafficking of fentanyl into the United States is a national security threat that has killed hundreds of thousands of United States citizens; transnational criminal organizations, including cartels primarily based in Mexico, are the main purveyors of fentanyl into the United States and must be held accountable; precursor chemicals sourced from the People’s Republic of China are— shipped from the People’s Republic of China by legitimate and illegitimate means; transformed through various synthetic processes to produce different forms of fentanyl; and crucial to the production of illicit fentanyl by transnational criminal organizations, contributing to the ongoing opioid crisis; the United States Government must remain vigilant to address all new forms of fentanyl precursors and drugs used in combination with fentanyl, such as Xylazine, which attribute to overdose deaths of people in the United States; to increase the cost of fentanyl trafficking, the United States Government should work collaboratively across agencies and should surge analytic capability to impose sanctions and other remedies with respect to transnational criminal organizations (including cartels), including foreign nationals who facilitate the trade in illicit fentanyl and its precursors from the People’s Republic of China; and the Department of the Treasury should focus on fentanyl trafficking and its facilitators as one of the top national security priorities for the Department.