Trump’s China border crackdown is undoing Biden’s damage

Published September 4, 2025 4:42pm ET



President Donald Trump‘s shutdown of the southern border has undone some of the damage caused by former President Joe Biden, and it has weakened the United States’s two biggest enemies: the Chinese Communist Party and Mexican drug cartels.

On Wednesday, the House passed the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act, which will hinder the manufacturing of fentanyl in China to prevent it from being laundered by cartels through the southern border.

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