Statement of Anne Milgram Administrator
Drug Enforcement Administration
U.S. Department of Justice
At a Hearing Entitled, "Drug Enforcement Administration Oversight" Before the House Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance
July 27, 2023

DEA has been hard at work to undertake a transformation of its own to meet this moment. DEA has acted with urgency to set a new vision, target the global criminal networks most responsible for the influx of fentanyl into the United States, and raise public awareness about how just one pill can kill. We have transformed our vision by focusing on fentanyl—the drug killing the most Americans—and the criminal organizations responsible for flooding fentanyl into our communities—the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation (Jalisco) Cartel. We have transformed our plan by building an entirely new strategic layer—our counterthreat teams for the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel—that maps the cartels, analyze their networks, and develop targeting information on the members of those networks wherever they operate around the globe. We have transformed our execution by providing that targeting information to our 334 offices worldwide, drawing from our global intelligence and law enforcement teams here and abroad, and working as One DEA to take the networks down. And we are seeing results—as demonstrated earlier this year with the indictment of 28 members and associates of the Chapitos network of the Sinaloa Cartel; the arrest of 3,337 associates of the Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartels in the United States responsible for the last mile of fentanyl and methamphetamine distribution on our streets and through social media; and the indictment of four chemical companies and eight individuals in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for providing customers with precursor chemicals and scientific know-how necessary to manufacture fentanyl.