A House Democrat on Thursday blasted the Trump administration for failing to release a drug control strategy in 2017 or 2018, even as tens of thousands of Americans were dying from drug overdoses.

“It is absolutely inexcusable that the administration did not bother to issue a National Drug Control Strategy during the first two years that he was in office,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.

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