A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House passed the HALT Act on Thursday, a bill that seeks to permanently classify fentanyl as a Schedule I substance.

A Republican-led bill to impose harsher sentences for people convicted of fentanyl-like drug crimes narrowly passed the House on Thursday evening, with 98 Democrats supporting the measure. The GOP-sponsored Halt All Lethal Trafficking,

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday classifying the powerful opiate fentanyl as among the most dangerous drugs — opening the door to traffickers facing mandatory minimum sentences for disseminating the highly addictive and deadly chemical.

While cocaine and heroin are two of the most infamous illegal narcotics, fentanyl has become the buzzword in the last few years due to its high death rate.

International organized criminals behind the fentanyl trade are powerful, in part, because they’re packing made-in-America weapons.

Trump administration says tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China critical to preventing fentanyl and other drugs from pouring across the U.S. border, and are not part of an international trade war.

The leaders of Mexico and Canada have been willing to appease U.S. President Donald Trump to avoid tariffs on their products.

When asked if he really thought Donald Trump's tariff threat was about fentanyl, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh accused the U.S. president of trying to put economic pressure on Canada to weaken the country as a whole.

In a press conference in Montreal on Thursday, Jagmeet Singh discussed his plans for responding to the U.S. tariff threat. Donald Trump has said he wants to make Canada the 51st state and Singh claimed the U.