IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CALLS FOR LESS SPENDING? Heroin Epidemic Prompts Calls for More Congressional Spending.

As appropriators work to craft an omnibus spending package to fund the federal government, one of them is making a pitch for additional funding to combat heroin.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is proposing a $600 million emergency supplemental for health care and law enforcement expenses associated with fighting the heroin epidemic that’s swept through communities across the country, including in the Democratic senator’s home state of New Hampshire.

The crises change, but the remedies are always the same.