Greg Abbott: “We lived up to a commitment I made, and that is to make…”

“What we have seen is a 40% drop in fentanyl deaths in the state of Texas. We've done something else that I haven't seen any other state do, and that is We lived up to a commitment I made, and that is to make fentanyl deaths a murder charge for anyone who is a part of providing fentanyl in a way that leads to somebody's death. There was just, again, most recently last week, murder charges brought against two people for fentanyl deaths that are now called murders. And so Texas is cracking down.” (06:07–06:20)

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