“There was enough fentanyl that was captured just on the northern border last year to kill 3 million Americans.”
What PolitiFact found
To kill 3 million people would require around 13 pounds of fentanyl. At the northern border, officials seized 14 pounds of fentanyl in fiscal year 2022 and 2 pounds in fiscal year 2023, which ended in September.
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In short
Vivek Ramaswamy (GOP Candidate) made this claim around 8 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 November 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Vivek Ramaswamy has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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