“We’re hearing more and more ‘I don’t trust the CDC, I don’t trust the FDA, but I trust this YouTube video I just watched on Facebook,’” said Coleman Cutchins, with Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services.
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Young votes to protect Alaska’s bypass mail, but bill likely won’t go far
Trump said this month that he does not want to give the postal service the $25 billion it requested because a functional post office would be able to process more ballots in the November election.
Murkowski condemns Trump tweet predicting election fraud: ‘This is not leadership from the White House’
Murkowski also noted the president has no authority to delay the election.
Impeachment: Young votes no, and Alaska’s senators aren’t likely to vote against Trump, either.
“Frankly, this has been a political stunt all along,” Young said in a statement issued after the vote.
Sullivan says Trump call to Ukraine president is not grounds for impeachment
In Haines on Monday, Sen. Dan Sullivan offered his most extensive public remarks yet on President Donald Trump’s controversial phone call with Ukraine’s president.
Trump infrastructure plan has rural money, but can Alaska have some?
Sen. Murkowski said she’ll learn more about the infrastructure proposal at an upcoming White House meeting for committee chairs. Top Democrats were invited, too, which Murkowski said indicates the White House isn’t intending the proposal as a partisan exercise.
Trump says he will focus on opioid law enforcement, not treatment
Opioids are a public health emergency, the president says, but he hasn’t acted on the White House opioid commission’s recommendations to expand treatment.
Senate Democrats to huddle as shutdown vote looms
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met with President Trump at the White House Friday afternoon to discuss a plan to avert a government shutdown.
Trump’s opioid disaster declaration could expand help to suffering Alaskans
President Donald Trump took a major step in dealing with the opioid epidemic killing tens of thousands of Americans a year. “I am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis,” the president proclaimed Thursday.
Trump administration declares opioid crisis a public health emergency
The move stops short of declaring a national emergency, which the president had pledged to do.