FAKE NEWS ALERT! Here it is in bold truth:
From the New York Times: “President Trump on Thursday will announce he is directing his Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency…but it falls short of declaring a national emergency on the crisis, even though a presidential commission he created had recommended that, and Mr. Trump pledged in August to follow through.”
Sorry, NYT, but that’s simply fake news.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — who chairs the presidential opioid commission — set the record straight Thursday morning:
