Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I believe we need to find ways to address this issue.”

The data on that is rolling in, and it is not promising.

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.