
Grieving parents slam Dems for opposing bipartisan fentanyl bill using claims parroted by Soros-backed group
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Parents who have lost children to fentanyl blast Democrats for obstructing passage of the HALT Act, which seeks to permanently classify fentanyl analogs as Schedule I controlled substances.
During comments Tuesday from the Senate floor, as he called for extending the temporary scheduling of fentanyl analogs, Booker claimed that the HALT Act will implement "harsher penalties for drugs" and that he would "not stop working until this body does more than just scheduling." Other Democratic senators, including Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, have said the HALT Act will impede research on fentanyl analogs and exacerbate mass incarceration among minority communities.
Booker cited testimony Tuesday from parents who lost their children to fentanyl overdoses during his remarks, but the same grieving parents he pointed to are calling on Congress to quit stalling the move to permanently schedule fentanyl analogs as Schedule I substances.