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Throughout NBC Nightly News’s two-week-long propaganda project for the 2020 Democratic field ahead of the first debate, a couple of the candidates actually suggested some half decent and probably generally supported ideas: fighting drug addiction and ending the practice of regime change overseas. These ideas tend to transcend party. So much so that these were actually ideas that President Trump supported.
Back on June 19, NBC correspondent Harry Smith sat down with Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar to discuss her “Big Idea”. “Klobuchar wants $100 billion over ten years. In part for more beds and treatment centers. And early intervention for mental health disorders,” he reported. “She'll fund her plan with taxes on and lawsuits against opioid manufacturers.”
Smith also noted that “addiction and mental health, for her, are issues that hit home” because her father struggled to overcome his alcoholism. “He went to treatment and in his words, he was pursued by grace. That was his faith and that was the treatment. That was the community, his friends, his family surrounding him and saying you've got to and he did,” Klobuchar explained.
Fighting the opioid epidemic was also something President Trump had made a priority for his administration. According to a White House website, “In 2018, President Trump worked with Congress to pass the SUPPORT Act, the single largest legislative package addressing a single drug crisis in history.” That’s not to mention that the President had lost his brother to alcoholism, which was why he didn’t drink.
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