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President Donald Trump talked a lot about immigration in his State of the Union address last night. He said the immigration package in Congress right now would give a path to citizenship for Dreamers, fully secure the border, end the visa lottery and “chain migration.”

Washington is home to 18,000 of those Dreamers. Congresswoman Suzan DelBene, Democrat, supports the bipartisan bill, but: “Legislation like this, we could put on the floor right away and I think would pass, but leadership has not allowed them to move,” she said.

Trump said in his address that he's committed to fight the opioid epidemic in our country. This is also an issue in our state, but the administration hasn't allocated any additional money to fight it. DelBene pointed out that money will be an obstacle for a while as federal government only has a budget that goes through Feb. 8.

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