1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ending the Notorious, Aggressive, and Remorseless Criminal Organizations and Syndicates Act of 2023 or the Ending the NARCOS Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The national security of the United States, along with the health and safety of the citizens of the United States, is under attack by Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations that engage in acts of terrorism to exploit the borders of the United States and further their unlawful business of producing and importing illicitly manufactured fentanyl, a substance that kills hundreds of thousands of people in the United States each year, methamphetamine, and other controlled substances. (2) Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, and some fentanyl-related substances can have even greater potency. (3) Although pharmaceutical fentanyl is prescribed by doctors to treat severe pain, illicitly manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances are created using precursor chemicals that are predominantly imported from China and distributed through illegal drug markets, most commonly by Mexican cartels across the southern border. (4) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 110,000 people in the United States died during fiscal year 2022 from drug overdoses. (5) Approximately 66 percent of those deaths in fiscal year 2022 related to illicitly manufactured fentanyl. (6) In December 2022, the Washington Post reported that, from 2019 to 2021, fatal fentanyl overdoses surged 94 percent and an estimated 196 people in the United States are now dying each day from the drug, which is the equivalent of a fully loaded Boeing 757–200 crashing and killing everyone on board every day. (7) The single largest loss of life resulting from a foreign attack on United States soil was the September 11 terrorist attacks, which killed 2,977 people, and fentanyl overdoses cause the equivalent