Jaime Herrera Beutler: “And so the $5 million will be a cushion fund?”

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

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.

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.