The Democratic National Committee (DNC) blasted President Trump on Tuesday over the nation's growing opioid epidemic, accusing him of abandoning his campaign promises and exacerbating the crisis.

In a statement released the day Trump planned to address the issue from New Jersey, DNC spokesperson Daniel Wessel said that the White House's budget proposal would include cuts to Medicaid that would "make this crisis even worse."

“Trump promised he’d come to the aid of communities ravaged by the opioid epidemic, but so far he’s done nothing for them," Wessel wrote.

"In fact, Trump’s budget proposal and the Medicaid cuts he supported as part of the Republican healthcare repeal would both make this crisis even worse."

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"Until Trump takes real action and abandons his attempts to reduce healthcare access to these communities," Wessel added, "anything he does is nothing but more empty rhetoric and another broken promise.”

Wessel cited Trump's proposed $610 billion cuts to Medicaid as one of those broken promises, writing that Trump supported the GOP healthcare bill "despite his repeated promises not to cut the program."

"Trump and his administration have so far failed to take the opioid epidemic seriously," Wessel said.

Last month, Trump's commission dedicated to fighting the opioid epidemic recommended that he declare a state of emergency over the issue after missing two deadlines to release its initial report.

"The first and most urgent recommendation of this Commission is direct and completely within your control. Declare a national emergency under either the Public Health Service Act or the Stafford Act," the White House opioid commission wrote in its interim report.

"Your declaration would empower your Cabinet to take bold steps and would force Congress to focus on funding and empowering the Executive Branch even further to deal with this loss of life."

Trump tweeted Tuesday that he will hold a press conference on the crisis at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club later in the day.