President Donald Trump signed legislation on Wednesday that aims to tackle the scourge of illegal fentanyl and impose stricter sentences for those who distribute and sell the drug.

Trump was joined by lawmakers and those who have lost loved ones to fentanyl intoxication when he signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking, or HALT, of Fentanyl Act at the White House in an official ceremony. 

The president called the bill a “historic step toward justice for every family touched by the fentanyl scourge as we sign the HALT Fentanyl Act into law.”

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