The administration is taking money away from rehab facilities, Medicare, fentanyl test strips and naloxone grants while spending billions on covert operations in Ecuador and the Pacific.

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What the evidence shows

Some of this is real. In April 2026 SAMHSA ended federal funding for fentanyl test strips, and it has cut at least $245 million in addiction and overdose grants. Large Medicaid cuts also hit addiction treatment, though that is Medicaid rather than Medicare. But Axios reports naloxone funding is still available, with only a $56 million naloxone training grant proposed for cuts. I found no figure showing billions spent on covert operations in Ecuador and the Pacific. An official budget line showing billions for those operations, and a final cut to naloxone grants, would flip this verdict.