Two Republican House lawmakers introduced a joint resolution to give President Biden the military authority to go after cartels destabilizing the western hemisphere.
Reps. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Michael Waltz, R-Fla., introducedauthorizing Biden to use military force to combat the cartels pumping fentanyl and other similar, dangerous substances across the border.
"What we’ve been dealing with for a while now, and nobody wants to talk about it too much, is a potentially failed narcoterrorist state at our border," Crenshaw told Fox News Digital in a Wednesday phone call. The congressman also said that the joint resolution"is not some messaging bill" and is"a very serious conversation about what needs to be done to address this threat."
"We are really, really serious about this. You guys have threats within your country that are becoming serious threats to our country, killing tens of thousands of Americans a year. And we need to address it. So it's a carrot and a stick. We want to help them, but we need that strong language in there, too."
"And we've even seen collaboration with international terrorist groups and the Chinese Communist Party with these groups," Waltz said in a Wednesday phone interview."So, we believe that we need to start using military assets to address this national security threat."
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