South Carolina Republican Rep. Ralph Norman could hardly contain his amazement when Dr. Rahul Gupta, President Joe Biden’s national drug control policy director, claimed that “protecting the border” with Mexico is among the administration’s top priorities.
Gupta’s claim came during his opening statement on June 27 before a lengthy digital hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, the focus of which was to be on how the president is dealing with the explosion of drug overdoses that killed more than 107,000 Americans last year.
“Did you say that? Am I right, did you say he is doing a great job of protecting the border,” the incredulous Norman asked the hearing’s sole witness….