A new report finds that several members of Congress worked with major drug distributors to undermine DEA efforts to stop the flow of prescription pain pills to American streets. A joint investigation by the “Washington Post” and CBS’s “60 Minutes” finds that they passed a law that allegedly halted DEA efforts to prevent drug companies from supplying narcotics to corrupt doctors and pharmacists. In the scathing expose, the “Post” reports that the drug industry poured more than one-million-dollars into the election campaigns of specific members of Congress, who would later vote in its favor. The chief advocate of the drug-industry-friendly law was Republican Congressman Tom Marino from Pennsylvania — who is currently President Trump’s nominee to become America’s next drug czar. After Monday’s article, multiple lawmakers have called on President Trump to rescind his nomination.
