Capito Vows to Fight Any Cuts to National Drug Programs

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In a letter to OMB Director Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) is urging the Trump Administration to reconsider any funding cuts to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) as the nation grapples with a serious opioid epidemic. She called on Director Mulvaney to instead propose a realistic budget that demonstrates the administration's commitment to combatting drug addiction.

"If cuts to the ONDCP, including the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas and Drug Free Communities programs, are proposed in the Administration's Fiscal Year 2018 Budget then I will lead a bipartisan group of my colleagues on the Appropriations Committee and in the Senate to reject those proposed cuts," said Senator Capito, chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government.

Senator Capito has worked with ONDCP, including its HIDTA and Drug Free Communities programs, to reduce drug use and overdose deaths, and to ensure that local communities have the resources they need to take on the drug challenge.

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