Rep. Derrick Van Orden said that if the price of securing the border from drug traffickers means guacamole becomes more expensive, he and other Americans are happy to pay.

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden (Wis.) said he is willing to “pay more for guacamole” under President-elect Trump’s tariff plan if it means getting rid of fentanyl across the country. Van Orden joined CNN’s Boris Sanchez on Wednesday and was asked how the GOP plans to implement the tariff plan and its mass deportation

Rep. Van Orden, R-Wis. argued that slightly more expensive imports from Mexico are an easy price to pay when American lives are what’s at stake.

President Joe Biden‘s fentanyl diplomacy with China is under scrutiny as President-elect Donald Trump’s team seeks a harder line to stop the flow of Chinese-made chemicals powering America’s epidemic.

Donald Trump has unveiled a new strategy for dealing with the fentanyl crisis. “I will be working on a large-scale United States Advertising Campaign explaining how bad fentanyl is for people to use —Millions of lives being so needlessly destroyed,