Jaime Herrera Beutler: “I agree with you that the real implications of short funding a contract are going to cause good partners to get out.”

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.

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

Washington State is--practically speaking, you can do drugs, just about anything, in front of an officer.

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