The White House punted to Congress on opioids funding. Congress doesn’t have a plan

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency two weeks ago. Six days later, a White House-appointed panel proposed a national drug court system, a dramatic increase in addiction treatment beds, and what President Trump called “really tough, really big, really great advertising” to warn of the perils of drug use.

Neither the White House nor Congress has suggested how to pay for those measures.