Homeland Security Committee Chairman Green wrote to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Wednesday demanding estimates on drug overdose deaths from 2022, specifically related to fentanyl.
"The latest provisional count provided by the CDC is from the 12-month period ending September 2022. It has now been five months since any new data has been published," he continued."This lack of timely data hinders the ability of Congress to gain a clear understanding of the drug epidemic and how it is evolving."
The CDC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment Wednesday on when the data with be provided. The committee held its first hearing Tuesday to examine Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' role in the"border crisis."One witness, Rebecca Kiessling who lost her sons Caleb and Kyler to fentanyl poisoning in 2020, gave emotional testimony and urged lawmakers to take action. She said she had been told that the drug which killed them came across the southern border."The Mayorkas border crisis is enriching cartels and human traffickers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized over 1.2 million fentanyl pills between two busts on Dec. 29.Fentanyl is primarily made in Mexico using Chinese precursors and smuggled across the land border. It is primarily intercepted through ports of entry by CBP’s Office of Field Operations as smugglers attempt to bring it to the country in their vehicles, but it is also sometimes stopped by Border Patrol agents in the field.Kelly Laco is a politics editor for Fox News Digital.
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