President Gives A Fourth Of His Salary To Fight Opioid Crisis – IOTW Report

President Gives A Fourth Of His Salary To Fight Opioid Crisis

Washington Times

President Donald Trump is donating his third-quarter salary to help tackle the nation’s opioid epidemic.

A White House official says Trump has given the $100,000 he would be paid in the quarter to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, which oversees federal public health offices and programs, including the surgeon general’s office.

The White House says the funds are being earmarked “to continue the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis.”

Trump has made tackling the misuse of opioids an administration priority. More than 70,000 Americans died in 2017 from drug overdoses, the bulk of them involving opioids. More

12 Comments on President Gives A Fourth Of His Salary To Fight Opioid Crisis

  1. And at the University of Maryland, Baltimore;
    his wife Melania was juat giving a speach to support
    better control of illegal opiate use and saving
    lives while the majority of the dirty scum in the
    audience booed her.
    If you are an Alumni keep your money away from
    that place.

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  2. While the dirty pig scum at the University of MD,
    Baltimore was ignoring her speech to them about the
    dangers of opiate abuse and booed her while she was
    trying to save their useless, rat bastard lives.

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  3. If the left-wing does cover this, it will be to point out that the President is a billionaire but only contributed $100K.

    From me, thank you, Mr. President. It is good to see someone with some power actually doing something

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  4. Was this announced by the First Lady, when she was booed by the ah, ah, low class nitwits in the Baltimore audience? (that were primarily middle school and high school students, the Baltimore school admin must be proud of their product). I only caught the tail end of the video on tv last evening. If it wasn’t announced there I think it may have been mentioned.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/first-lady-melania-trump-booed-at-baltimore-opioid-event.html .

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