{"id":1935807,"date":"2023-05-22T22:29:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T02:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-supports-gop-led-bill-to-increase-penalties-for-trafficking-fentanyl\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T22:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T02:30:40","slug":"wh-supports-gop-led-bill-to-increase-penalties-for-trafficking-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-supports-gop-led-bill-to-increase-penalties-for-trafficking-fentanyl\/","title":{"rendered":"WH backs GOP bill to boost penalties for Fentanyl trafficking."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwh-supports-gop-led-bill-to-increase-penalties-for-trafficking-fentanyl%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1935807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>White House Supports Bill to Increase Penalties for Fentanyl Trafficking<\/p>\n<p>The White House has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economists-push-for-another-round-of-stimulus-checks\/\" title=\"Economists Push for Another Round of Stimulus Checks\">expressed support<\/a> for the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (HALT Fentanyl) Act, a bill introduced by two House Republicans that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-biden-unveils-immigration-bill-leftwing-activists-call-for-end-to-filibuster-to-ram-it-through\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Biden Unveils Immigration Bill, Leftwing Activists Call For End To Filibuster To Ram It Through\">increase penalties<\/a> for fentanyl trafficking and classify it as a Schedule 1 substance. The bill has 52 Republican cosigners and is aligned with President Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-portland-police-union-chief-slams-city-officials-claims-they-encouraged-and-enabled-antifa-violence\/\" title=\"WATCH: Portland Police Union Chief Slams City Officials, Claims They \u2018Encouraged\u2019 And \u2018Enabled\u2019 Antifa Violence\">public safety agenda<\/a>. Fentanyl is a man-made drug that can cause a coma or death even in small amounts and has contributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-supports-gop-led-bill-to-increase-penalties-for-trafficking-fentanyl\/\" title=\"WH backs GOP bill to boost penalties for Fentanyl trafficking.\">record-high drug overdose deaths<\/a> in 2021. The HALT Fentanyl Act would allow law enforcement to seize the drug and hold dealers accountable. The bill is expected to be voted on in the House on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House backs House Republicans&#8217; bill as tablets suspected of containing fentanyl are displayed at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2055,"featured_media":1935808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[7838,10250,6203,9637,4444],"class_list":["post-1935807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-boost","tag-fentanyl","tag-gop","tag-penalties","tag-trafficking"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}