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Kellyanne Conway valliantly fights Opiods...by focusing on the big, beautiful wall.
Kellyanne Conway trying to fight opioids by sidelining experts and focusing on Trump’s border wall
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/kellyanne-conway-trying-fight-opioids-sidelining-experts-focusing-trumps-border-wall/
According to Politico, the senior counselor to President Donald Trump is blocking the acting opioid czar’s experts and leaders from attending meetings while 175 people die each day from drug abuse.
“The best way to prevent drug addiction and overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place. If they don’t start, they won’t have a problem,” Trump said during his briefing in August. “So we’re going to do our job. We’re going to get it going. We’ve got a tremendous team of experts and people that want to beat this horrible situation that’s happened to our country — and we will. We will win.”
That “tremendous team of experts” the president touted have no power or authority to advise or even speak with the president, thanks to Conway blocking them. Until just recently, the highest ranking Trump appointee to the effort was a 24-year-old recent college graduate. Trump’s previous appointee to chair the office withdrew from consideration after a “60 Minutes” expose on his efforts to undermine the FDA’s war against opioids.
“It’s fair to say the [Office of National Drug Control Policy] has pretty much been systematically excluded from key decisions about opioids and the strategy moving forward,” a former Trump administration staffer told Politico.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/kellyanne-conway-trying-fight-opioids-sidelining-experts-focusing-trumps-border-wall/
According to Politico, the senior counselor to President Donald Trump is blocking the acting opioid czar’s experts and leaders from attending meetings while 175 people die each day from drug abuse.
“The best way to prevent drug addiction and overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place. If they don’t start, they won’t have a problem,” Trump said during his briefing in August. “So we’re going to do our job. We’re going to get it going. We’ve got a tremendous team of experts and people that want to beat this horrible situation that’s happened to our country — and we will. We will win.”
That “tremendous team of experts” the president touted have no power or authority to advise or even speak with the president, thanks to Conway blocking them. Until just recently, the highest ranking Trump appointee to the effort was a 24-year-old recent college graduate. Trump’s previous appointee to chair the office withdrew from consideration after a “60 Minutes” expose on his efforts to undermine the FDA’s war against opioids.
“It’s fair to say the [Office of National Drug Control Policy] has pretty much been systematically excluded from key decisions about opioids and the strategy moving forward,” a former Trump administration staffer told Politico.
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