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Mike Johnson: “Fentanyl alone is the leading cause of death for Americans…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Published | Video Starts at 14:54

It's a terrible tragedy. And don't ever forget that that was their motive. It was for their own political gain that they put the American people in such jeopardy. Fentanyl alone is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45. And that's flowed open the border. Human trafficking, all of the atrocities. They lost hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors in the system somewhere to traffickers. (14:54–14:59)

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Asserts that fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45.

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