Biden's DEA knew people would die

This Is How You Know the Biden-Era Fentanyl Scandal Is Bad

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cameron-arcand/2026/06/25/democrat-sounds-off-over-fentanyl-scandal-reckless-and-dangerous-n2678318#google_vignette

Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham (D-NM) responded to Associated Press and Albuquerque Journal reports detailing that the Drug Enforcement Administration allowed just under two million fentanyl pills to "walk" into the United States in order to obtain “intelligence," from 2023 to 2025, primarily during the Biden-era. 

“Make no mistake: the DEA knew people would die if these pills made it into New Mexico communities, and the agency let it happen anyway,” Lujan-Grisham said in a statement, adding that "there are no words to describe how reckless and dangerous these decisions were."

“The result: hundreds of New Mexican parents burying their kids. Hundreds of New Mexican kids growing up without stable parents. All while the federal government stood by,” she continued. "If the justification for letting these pills flood our communities was that it would somehow make New Mexico safer down the road through bigger eventual busts, the results say otherwise. New Mexico now leads the nation in the increase in overdose deaths for the second straight year, despite deaths dropping nationwide."

The Democrat then said she is asking New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez to look into “whether any federal agents broke state law when they allowed lethal drugs to remain on our streets, and to prosecute anyone responsible — regardless of whether they are a federal agent or not.”

The AP report noted that DEA agent whistleblower David Howell said that “we poisoned our community to make cases.”

“Through our own willful blindness, we get to say, ‘We don’t really know what happened to the drugs.’ But we 100% got people killed,” he added. One particular scandal involved roughly 74,000 pills that were sent to a trailer park in the state, Townhall previously reported.