Ben Rhodes: ‘There Is Not a Fentanyl Problem on the Northern Border of the United States’

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RHODES: "Yeah, well, there are a couple points I would make on tariffs. The first is the kind of lack of clarity about what they’re for. And actually, the Canada example is a great one. There’s not a fentanyl problem on the northern border of the United States.
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Like, there's just not. Like, objectively speaking, like, I think the amount of fentanyl that was brought in — that was apprehended, it could have been like a backpack, right, last year. That is true. Mexico, yes, Mexico, absolutely. There’s not, like, a fentanyl crisis at this border. The problem is, Canadians didn’t know why, and probably still don’t know why, there were these tariffs."