Trump cracks down on fentanyl substances with bill signing
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Wednesday, July 16, 2025
President Trump signed a bill Wednesday that permanently places illicit fentanyl and its chemical cousins on the most restrictive list of drugs in the U.S.
The HALT Fentanyl Act is a long-awaited move to clarify regulations around the synthetic opioid and ensure consistency in drug enforcement.
“We’ve worked very hard to put ourselves in this position,” Mr. Trump said at a White House ceremony with parents who lost children to overdoses. “Today, we strike a righteous blow to the drug dealers, narcotic traffickers and criminal cartels.”
Fentanyl is fueling the U.S. drug overdose crisis. Yet Congress struggled for years to pass legislation that would keep illicit forms of it on the Schedule I list of drugs that have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Experts say permanent, rather than temporary, scheduling would result in efficient prosecutions and consistent penalties under guidelines from the U.S. Sentencing Commission while sending a signal to China and Mexico that America is serious about tackling the fentanyl problem as it pressures those nations to do more.
Congress passed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking (HALT) Fentanyl Act on a bipartisan basis this year.
Illicit fentanyl is made in clandestine labs and has an array of chemical analogs. It’s tough for U.S. laws to keep up with every form, so the HALT Fentanyl Act seeks to cover all of the illicit supply and make it easier for prosecutors to win cases.
“For years, the monsters who manufacture illicit fentanyl have sought to skirt legal restrictions by making minor variations of the chemical compound and, in the process, they’ve developed even more toxic versions of the drug,” Mr. Trump said.
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