President Trump declared illicit fentanyl a “Weapon of Mass Destruction,” citing its extreme lethality and the hundreds of thousands of American deaths linked to overdoses. An executive order directs federal officials to consider deploying Department of War resources to assist the Justice Department in enforcing federal law against fentanyl threats.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order classifying illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, expanding the government’s tools to combat the deadly drug crisis.
By Mary Fanning and Alan Jones At an April 30 news conference at Israel’s Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi”…