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John,
Fentanyl is ravaging communities across Ohio and across the country at a terrifying pace.
My opponent, Troy Balderson, has refused to address this growing calamity in his many years in Congress. As a result, easy access to fentanyl and highly addictive opioids is tearing people’s lives apart and destroying the fabric of our communities every single day.
Rep. Balderson had a chance to do the right thing for his constituents when bipartisan border security negotiators released a bill that would make a huge investment in immigration enforcement, detection of illicit drugs, and stemming the flow of fentanyl, in particular, at its source. Instead, he and Speaker Mike Johnson declared the bill “dead on arrival.”
The bipartisan border security bill was such a strong improvement to the current system that even the National Border Patrol Council—a union that endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2020—supported it and encouraged its passage. The Border Patrol Council represents more than 18,000 Border Patrol agents.
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