Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I think it will give me a good look at some of the activities and functions that make up our first branch of government…”

I think one of the things, we were talking about fentanyl and overdose deaths and those increasing.

You obviously worked these issues. Not all Secretaries do, to be honest.

If we do not immediately put together a COVID supplemental package, we are going to put everyone, and seniors and people who are uninsured... they will turn around and go home.

In Washington State, just in 2021, there was a 66 percent increase in drug-related overdose deaths, and more than half of these are due to fentanyl.