Jaime Herrera Beutler: “Unfortunately, because of the Commission's actions, it seems to have been rendered moot.”

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.

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

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.