11/30/2017

DRUGS/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will donate his third-quarter salary to the Department of Health and Human Services’ efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, the Trump administration said Thursday [11-30-17].
Acting Health and Human Services Secretary Eric Hargan, speaking with reporters at Thursday’s White House press briefing, said the donation shows Trump’s ‘sense of duty to the American people.’
Trump’s money will be used on a ‘large-scale public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction,’ Hargan said.
In October, Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency, telling an audience in the East Room of the White House that ‘we can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic.’…
Since taking office in January, Trump has opted to donate his salary to a series of government agencies and efforts. His first-quarter salary went to the National Park Service and his second-quarter pay went to the Department of Education.”

-Dan Merica, “Trump to donate part of his salary to combat opioid addiction,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Nov. 30, 2017 04:44pm