“In 2021, “11,201 pounds of fentanyl were seized by Customs and Border Protection, which is enough to kill every American nearly seven times over.”
What PolitiFact found
Using a standard fatal dose of 2 milligrams, the amount seized in 2021 would have been enough to kill every American 7.64 times over.
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In short
Claudia Tenney (U.S. Representative, R-N.Y.) made this claim around 1 April 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 April 2022, 26 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Claudia Tenney has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- tenney.house.govhttps://tenney.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tenneys-statement-biden-admin…
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