WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Alex Padilla, D-Calif., today led 18 Democratic Senate colleagues in pressing the Trump administration for answers over its recent plan to cut nearly $2 billion in federal funding for critical substance abuse and mental health services, only to reverse course on its decision one day later, causing mass chaos and confusion for patients and providers nationwide.
"Cancelling these grants would have jeopardized critical work being done on the frontlines of the opioid crisis, which directly contradicts this administration's own stated goals to tackle the opioid crisis," the senators wrote in their letter to Department of Health and Hu...