GOP lawmaker says paying 'more for guacamole' is worthy price to keep fentanyl out of our border

Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis. argued that slightly more expensive imports from Mexico are an easy price to pay when American lives are on the line.

"Well, here's what's really been inflationary," Van Orden began. "The last four years of the radical, out of control Biden spending with this Inflation Reduction Act, that's what has caused inflation."

The congressman then argued that imports like guacamole pale in importance compared to the health of American citizens.

"If it means that I have to pay more for guacamole, but fentanyl poison does not come across the Canadian and Mexican border, and our mothers and sisters and brothers and daughters aren't poisoned to death by this chemical that's coming across the border, I'm willing to pay more for guacamole, as is the rest of the United States of America," he said.

Van Orden then suggested that this position is a bipartisan one, protecting Americans of all kinds.

"We gotta understand that this is not a political statement. It's not a Republican or a Democrat issue, or independent or Libertarian, we're sick and tired of our children and our neighbors dying from fentanyl poisoning. There's not a single person. There's not a single person listening to this show right now that is farther than one degree separated from someone that has died from fentanyl poisoning and that's exactly what President Trump is getting to with these tariffs," he said.