Jaime Herrera Beutler: “You represent just a force that has been laboring and laboring and laboring just to get to this point.”

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.

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

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