Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I completely believe the reason you are doing this is to make this a more functional, effective, efficient institution.”

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

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.

In April, inflation was 8.3 percent, and the cost of food, housing, gas, energy, all of it is at record levels.

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.