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USMCA compliant cars may get a lower tariff rate or be exempted altogether, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an interview Wednesday.

Biden did little as fentanyl smugglers killed roughly 300,000 Americans on his watch, but Trump has quickly imposed painful tariffs on the countries that are helping those smugglers. 

The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued an impassioned condemnation of President Donald Trump on Friday after he announced a plan to impose an extra ten-percent tariff on Chinese goods in March in response to China’s role in the American fentanyl crisis.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not ruling out military strikes on fentanyl labs in Mexico, he said in a recent interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.

The Senate Special Committee on Aging holds a hearing on combatting America’s ongoing opioid epidemic on Wednesday, February 26.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) reintroduced legislation to allow the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the processing and removal of migrants illegally entering the country in response to the fentanyl-related public health emergency, Breitbart News learned exclusively Wednesday.

Mexico’s government has been hyping up minor seizures and cartel arrests as part of a PR strategy attempting to appease the Trump administration. Trump officials highlighted Meixco’s inaction against cartels and corruption. The American president has threatened them with tariffs and other punitive measures.

Citing revelations in Peter Schweizer’s most recent book, Taiwan’s top prosecutor ordered an investigation into Zhang An Le, known as “White Wolf,” on suspicion of assisting Mexican drug cartels to produce fentanyl.

On Monday, ABC News Correspondent Matt Rivers said that after Mexico agreed to send additional National Guard troops to the border in the wake of negotiations between the United States and Mexico after the threat of tariffs by President Donald

The fentanyl crisis is not a drug crisis but “chemical warfare against the American people,” Rep. Addison McDowell (R-NC) said.

Ricardo Leal, a forensic expert at the Brazilian Society of Toxicology (SBTox), warned of the dangers of the nitazenes synthetic super-opioids arriving to Brazil from China in an interview published by the Argentine outlet Infobae on Friday.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro once again called for the legalization of cocaine and claimed it is “not worse than whiskey” during a disastrous six-hour-long meeting on Tuesday evening with his cabinet of ministers that the government broadcast live.

President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing tariffs on China included a provision that eliminates the controversial “de minimis” exemption for small import shipments.

The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the ongoing fentanyl drug crisis in America on Tuesday, February 4.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria stated that Mexico has been willing to talk about fentanyl and there could have been conversations with them without a tariff threat. Host Dana Bash said, “[L]et’s

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Canadian Ambassador to the U.N. Bob Rae stated that Canada didn’t make a lot of changes in response to the tariff threat from President Donald Trump and stated that “many of

China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday rounded up ministers and business leaders to condemn President Donald Trump’s ten percent tariff on imports from China, which were scheduled to take effect on Tuesday.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 troops to its northern border as one of the ways to stop a 25 percent tariff from the Trump administration temporarily. The concession comes after days of grandstanding by the Mexican president, who publicly claimed she would stand up for her country’s sovereignty.

Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre announced a sprawling national plan to address President Donald Trump’s 25-percent tariffs on Canadian goods this weekend, condemning them as “unjust and unjustified” against America’s “best friend.”

There is “no sense” in President Donald Trump using economic tariffs to reduce the mass murder of Americans by fentanyl, says the Wall Street Journal.

Letters of Marque would allow private organizations to operate in the “dead space” in between government bureaucracies where the Mexican drug cartels operate, Erik Prince, an American veteran and the founder of Unplugged Technologies explained during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that a 25 percent tariff will be levied on goods from Mexico and Canada, while Chinese imports will face a 10 percent duty.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers teamed up with local law enforcement to arrest members of the Tren de Aragua gang on fentanyl-dealing charges. President Donald Trump recently designated the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly met with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday as part of a diplomatic offensive to convince the administration of President Donald Trump not to impose a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods, which he threatened to do on February 1.

West Virginia’s Governor, Patrick Morrisey, has ordered the state’s law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE.

Canadian Liberals are scrambling to fill the power vacuum left by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation, using a great deal of tough talk intended to convince voters that the party can stand up to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in a potential tariff and border security conflict.

Angel Moms whose children were murdered by illegal aliens or poisoned by fentanyl are calling for the rapid confirmation of Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Sen. Jim Banks proposed to sanction Chinese officials who refuse to curb the flow of fentanyl precursors to the United States.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum addressed a recent series of New York Times reports about fentanyl production in Sinaloa, calling the stories “not very believable.”  The reports, titled “This is What Makes Us Rich: Inside a Sinaloa Cartel Lab” and “How Mexican Cartels Test Fentanyl on Vulnerable People and Animals,” were published one day earlier.

Six people are facing charges of murder and endangering the welfare of a child after an infant died from exposure to meth and fentanyl in Lincoln County, Missouri, according to law enforcement.

President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a woman who was sentenced to 15 years in prison over conspiring to manufacture and distribute an altered and more potent version of fentanyl.

President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a man who was sentenced to ten years in prison for his involvement in a New York woman’s fentanyl overdose death.

The young adult mortality rate in California remains significantly higher than the pre-pandemic rate, with officials attributing the majority of the spike in deaths to drug overdoses.

The incoming Trump administration’s senior director of counterterrorism and deputy assistant to the president, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, said during a special Founders Roundtable on Breitbart Fight Club that Mexican drug cartels are “in big trouble” once the Trump administration enters office.

Federal health officials are warning of a drug even more deadly than fentanyl that has killed numerous people.

A pair of fentanyl dealers were sentenced to a combined 15-year federal prison sentence after being found guilty in the death of a 15-year-old Carrollton, Texas, girl. The two supplied the girl with fake Percocet pills containing the deadly fentanyl, according to court documents.