Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I completely understand why. I know that you have received pretty steep funding cuts from this Congress.”

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.

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.

My opinion is this mandate is going to increase the cost of Federal construction projects, and it is going to curb competition.