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Epidemic. [ applause ] this grant funding will go to more than 50 innovative projects targeting the greatest drug threats facing the united states. and i will tell you last year the budget, also this year -- last year we got $6 billion, $6 billion to work on the opioid problem at every level. really helping people that are in need of help. last year we increased the federal sentence for drug trafficking to its highest level since 2013. for the first time in years, we are assuring there are real tough consequences for those who flood our street with deadly poison. thanks to your partnership, la...

Country? >> the number one reason to support trump's wall is to save lives. because you interdict the drugs. we interdict enough fentanyl that would kill millions of americans because it's so lethal. you seal off the southern border from the drugs coming across, you will save thousands and thousands of american lives. we need to do the wall for that reason alone and for the immigration stuff. but it's mission critical. if you look at the opioid problem, the prescription abuse has actually declined. states have taken action. we were better positioned there. it's the street drugs killing a lot o...

Country? >> the number one reason to support trump's wall is to save lives. because you interdict the drugs. we interdict enough fentanyl that would kill millions of americans because it's so lethal. you seal off the southern border from the drugs coming across, you will save thousands and thousands of american lives. we need to do the wall for that reason alone and for the immigration stuff. but it's mission critical. if you look at the opioid problem, the prescription abuse has actually declined. states have taken action. we were better positioned there. it's the street drugs killing a lot o...

Be fine. democrats say look if you have a tr trillion and a half dollars to spend, there are things we value, like lets keep down the cost of health insurance, let's take care of the opioid problem in america. republicans say, listen, i'd like to do that but we don't have any money for that. let's take care of the student loan debt crisis. there's $1.5 trillion that young people have that keep them from getting their lives started. they're crushed from this debt. or how about we really do an infrastructure plan. how about we put the money in to repair our crumbling infrastructure and build an ...

Trillion and a half dollars to spend, there's a lot of things we value and care about. let's keep down the cost of health insurance so people can afford it. let's take care of the opioid problem in america. republicans say listen, i like to do that but we don't have any money for that. let's take care of the student loan debt crisis. a trillion and a half dollars that young people are right now and keeping them from getting their lives started. how about we really do an infrastructure plan. how about we actually put the money in to repair a crumbling infrastructure and build one for a 21st eco...