Analysis: Trump budget guts White House drug control office -- again
My colleagues Scott Higham, Sari Horowitz and Katie Zezimathat in May 2016, 11 public health officials urged the Obama administration to declare a national emergency to train a laser-like focus on the deadly synthetic drug.
"The decision was one in a series of missed opportunities, oversights and half-measures by federal officials who failed to grasp how quickly fentanyl was creating another — and far more fatal — wave of the opioid epidemic," my colleagues write. British lawmakers *still* haven't been able to reach agreement on how to leave the European Union. Three years after the original Brexit vote and two weeks before the deadline for leaving the European Union on schedule, the British parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's tweaked Brexit deal.
Boris Johnson, a leading Brexiteer and the former British foreign secretary, continued to push for a no-deal Brexit calling it “the only safe path to self-respect.” Lawmakers are still seeking “a managed withdrawal,” per Booth and Adam. However, both May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, appeared to have reached their limits on negotiations.
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