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A bipartisan Senate duo is pushing legislation that would increase screening for fentanyl in emergency rooms to identify patients suffering from overdoses.

The Treasury Department on Monday announced a new strike force to help combat illicit fentanyl trafficking as the U.S. and China step up efforts to stop the movement of the powerful opioid and drug-making materials into the U.S.

The Biden administration is removing a Chinese institute from a trade sanctions list, reportedly in exchange for Chinese President Xi Jinping's help in cracking down on chemical shipments that are used to make deadly fentanyl.

China has agreed to crack down on companies that produce and export the precursor chemicals used to manufacture illicit drugs, particularly the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl. The reported deal will be concluded when China's President Xi Jinping meets with President Biden on the sidelines of Wednesday's summit in San Francisco.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed Wednesday to send special forces into Mexico to seek out the cartels that traffic fentanyl into the U.S. and "we're going to shoot them dead."