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The Republican-led Congress has turned the work of the president's opioid commission into a "charade" and a "sham,".
"Everyone is willing to tolerate the intolerable -- and not do anything about it," said Patrick Kennedy, who was one of six members appointed to the bipartisan commission in March. "I'm as cynical as I've ever been about this stuff."
President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a 90-day public health emergency in October, but did not make any new funding available. In November the president said he would donate his third quarter salary to the Department of Health and Human Services to help fight the crisis.
Critics say the declaration did virtually nothing to change the status quo and that overdose deaths have continued to mount in the months since. The public health emergency declaration was, in fact, set to expire on January 23, but as the government was headed toward a shut down on Friday, Acting Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan renewed the national public health emergency for another 90 days.
"This and the administration's other efforts to address the epidemic are tantamount to reshuffling chairs on the Titanic," said Kennedy. "The emergency declaration has accomplished little because there's no funding behind it. You can't expect to stem the tide of a public health crisis that is claiming over 64,000 lives per year without putting your money where your mouth is."
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
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Guarantee you there was a big photo op that went along with the launching of the Commission
Remember the special Trump Committee to study voter fraud, belly up, was disbanded couple weeks ago, it got the big photo op send off also
Kind of funny, now we got a fog catcher falling back on the standard, "it's Obama's fault."
Obama did, passed three legislative efforts and approved millions in appropriations, unlike the current President, who can't get legislation thru nor approved funding
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic
I'm beginning to believe damo is the real damo
people I trust have reassured me
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