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In this 2013 photo provided by Kraig Moss, Moss, left, poses with son, Rob, in their Owego, N.Y. home. In a hall packed with Iowa voters, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looked Moss in the eye and vowed to fight the opioid crisis that killed his only son Rob two years earlier. But Trump released a federal budget proposal Tuesday, May 23, 2017, that would cut insurance coverage for addiction treatment and funding for research and prevention. (Moss Family Photo via AP)
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FILE - In this March 1, 2016 file photo, Kraig Moss plays a song for attendees as they wait in line before the arrival of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ahead of a campaign stop at the Signature Flight Hangar at Port-Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. "He promised me, in honor of my son, that he was going to combat the ongoing heroin epidemic," Moss said of a January 2016 presidential campaign interaction with Trump. Trump's budget proposal released Tuesday, May 23, 2017, weakens insurance coverage for drug addiction treatment and cuts back funding for research and prevention programs. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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Illustration on tax reform by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - This March 9, 2017, file photo, Republican Sen. Daniel Thatcher speaks on the phone on the Senate floor at the Utah state Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Utah lawmakers say they hope a new, unique law cuts down on the expanding and increasingly troubling forms of cyber harassment by giving authorities the ability to send the online bullies to jail. Thatcher, who sponsored the 2017 legislation, said there's a chance that he may look to make a minor change to the law in order to better clarify its meaning, but doesn't expect a significant adjustment. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This Feb. 3, 2015, file photo, Eagle Mountain Republican Rep. David Lifferth appears on the house floor at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Utah lawmakers say they hope a new, unique law cuts down on the expanding and increasingly troubling forms of cyber harassment by giving authorities the ability to send the online bullies to jail. Last year, Utah legislators considered a similar bill, but stripped out the personally identifiable information portion because some committee members were concerned with how broad some terms in that section were, said than Republican Rep. Lifferth, who sponsored the 2016 bill. Lifferth's bill was never passed because lawmakers say they ran out of time. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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In this Wednesday, May 24, 2017 photo, a man stands in Evergreen Home Cemetery in Beatrice, Neb. For about 20 years, staff and residents from the state center for developmentally disabled people have been visiting the nearby Beatrice cemetery to ensure that no one who'd lived and died at the center goes unremembered. (Samuel Craig /Beatrice Daily Sun via AP)
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FILE - In this June 25, 2015 file photo, participants take part in a health care rally outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. A growing number of Americans age 40 and older think Medicare should cover the costs of long-term care for older adults, according to a poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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FILE- In the Jan 8, 2017 file photo, the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York is shown. Three male federal prison guards have been arrested on charges they sexually abused female prisoners at the facility. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a ceremony where he signed SB7, a bill to address inappropriate teacher-student relationships, at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Gov. Greg Abbott, center, shakes hands with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick after he signed SB7, a bill to address inappropriate teacher-student relationships, after he signed it during a ceremony at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Austin. Standing behind Abbott, from left, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath, Rep. Gary VanDeaver, Sen. Paul Bettencourt and Rep. Tony Dale. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Gov. Greg Abbott, center, offers a pen to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, right, after he signed SB7, a bill to address inappropriate teacher-student relationships, after he signed it during a ceremony at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Austin. Standing behind Abbott, from left, Marc Salvato, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath, Rep. Gary VanDeaver, Sen. Paul Bettencourt and Rep. Tony Dale. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Ben and Jerry's is banning customers from ordering two scoops of the same flavor in its 26 stores across Australia as an act of protest against the country's gay marriage ban. (Ben and Jerry's)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Rosendo Rodriguez. Rodriguez, on Texas death row for the 2005 slaying of a pregnant Lubbock woman whose body was stuffed inside a piece of luggage found at the Lubbock city landfill, has lost a federal court appeal. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling ruling late Wednesday, May 24, 2017, moves Rodriguez, 37, one step closer to lethal injection for the fatal beating and choking of 29-year-old Summer Baldwin. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2015, file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Shaun Bosse. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday, May 25, 2017, has upheld the death penalty of Bosse, who is convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two children in 2010. The court ruled that testimony by relatives of the victims saying Bosse should receive the death penalty should not have been allowed, but was harmless error. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 25, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 25, 2017, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Homeland Security Department's fiscal 2018 budget. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 25, 2017, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Homeland Security Department's fiscal 2018 budget. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 25, 2017, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Homeland Security Department's fiscal 2018 budget. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Logo for The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. (Evergreen State College/Facebook)
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Demonstrators take part in a protest against Brazil's President Michel Temer in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Temer's attempt to win back confidence and stay in power was undermined Tuesday as one aide was arrested in a fraud scheme, another aide turned over to police a bag full of cash and shouts of "down with Temer" led a Senate commission to suspend work on a package of the president's labor reforms. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
