Hypocrite House Republicans Want To Slash Opioid Epidemic Funding

In 2022, House Republicans ran on bashing Biden for the opioid epidemic, but now they are trying to slash funding for the crisis.

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House Republicans Propose Slashing Opioid Epidemic Funding

House Republicans have spent years yelling about the opioid epidemic and how it is a crisis in our communities, while they blame President Biden. A House majority that cares so much about this problem would definitely put their money where their mouths have been when it comes time to unveil their budget, right?

Not so much.

In fact, not at all.

The White House released a fact sheet that called out House Republicans for proposing funding cuts toward programs to fight the epidemic that they have blaming Biden for:

Under President Biden’s leadership, the Biden-Harris Administration has invested more funding and broken more barriers to treatment than any previous administration. That includes signing the bipartisan law that expanded the number of health care providers who can prescribe life-saving treatment for opioid use disorder by more than 1.8 million. And it inc…