Want to Keep Fighting Fentanyl? Don't Cut Medicaid
President Donald Trump says the opioid epidemic is such a clear and present danger that it justifies extraordinary actions against the foreign nations he accuses of facilitating the flow of fentanyl into the US. Meanwhile, his Republican allies in Congress are about to hobble the federal government's most important domestic tool for fighting opioid addiction: the Medicaid program.
The result is that, just as Trump is demanding that other countries do more to fight the opioid epidemic, Congress is poised to do less.
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