Senators Probe Biden Admin Over China’s Fentanyl Subsidies by Terri Wu – US Politics News

At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, a White House representative refused to disclose whether the administration knew about China’s fentanyl subsidies before making concessions to the Chinese regime to secure counternarcotics cooperation.
Responding to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Kemp Chester from the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy assured him that the Biden administration has “what we consider to be a very good picture” of the Chinese regime’s role in the fentanyl flow into the United States and said engaging China is “critically important.”
Then Mr. Grassley, co-chair of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, a group with legislative authority, asked the question differently: “So our government was aware of the illicit narcotic subsidy program before it made concessions to the Chinese government?”…