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Featuring: Dusty Johnson, Republican | U.S. House, South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District

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They will find a way to poison American communities. So we also have to be on the cutting edge. And you are right, Blake, in calling out China, we know that 95% of the precursor chemicals used by the drug cartels to poison American citizens comes from China. And so I've been a big pusher of a package we've got that over time is going to hold China accountable through sanctions, through fines, and through other accountability mechanisms for really their inexcusable role in this poisoning of our communities. (10:30–10:37)

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