Sen. Chuck Schumer wants $290M to help
fight deadly ‘rainbow fentanyl’
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/25/2022 9:40:31 PM
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday he wants almost $300 million in federal funding to fight “rainbow fentanyl”—highly-addictive pills that look like candy and could have a devastating effect on young people. The $290 million in funds would be used to sustain 61 Overdose Response Strategy teams that would help try to curb fentanyl, including the new “rainbow” kind, the New York Democrat said at a press conference. “This is fentanyl, this is a Sweetart—you tell me the difference,” Schumer said while holding up pictures of both the deadly pills and the tangy sweets. “Halloween is coming up… this is really worrisome and really dangerous.”
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If ever there was a cause for federal funding of a local problem, it's "rainbow fentanyl," which might not even exist. Especially federal funding to a state whose voters demand that criminals must not be punished and that the US border must remain open so Mexican traffickers and their illegal alien partners can import more fentanyl.