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Last Updated on January 2, 2026.

WASHINGTON –  In response to President Trump’s executive order designating fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction,” Win Without War Government Relations Director Eric Eikenberry released the following statement:

“Slashing funding for proven drug treatment programs, eliminating support for lifesaving overdose prevention medication, and kicking millions off Medicaid utterly fails to help communities through the overdose crisis. Having pushed all these measures, however, President Trump may have stumbled upon an even worse idea.

”Declaring fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ does nothing to help a single person struggling with addiction, nor a single family impacted by the overdose crisis. Instead, this executive order is a disgusting attempt to use their pain and grief to expand Trump’s authoritarian power grab by putting more troops in our streets, criminalizing people who need care and support for recovery, and – egregiously – conjuring a new, false ‘WMD’ threat to justify war with Venezuela. 

“We know what happens when presidents make unsubstantiated claims about weapons of mass destruction and Congress acquiesces. From demanding answers on domestic military deployments, to protecting people struggling with addiction from being outrageously treated as ‘terrorists’, to passing this week’s War Powers Resolutions to prevent a new endless war in Latin America, Congress must use every tool at its disposal to curb the effects of this reckless executive order.”

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December 15, 2025