Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I wanted to bring specifically for the record and to your attention, because I wasn't familiar with your overall budget…”

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

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

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.