In a noble gesture, US President Donald Trump on Friday donated his third-quarter salary to the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) to help fight the opioid epidemic. Mr Trump’s annual salary is $4,00,000. So, effectively his donation amount would be about $1,00,000.
“His decision to donate his salary is a tribute to his compassion, to his patriotism his and sense of duty to the American people. But it’s his compassion above all that drives his interest in the issue to which HHS is going to devote his donation, America’s devastating opioid crisis,” HHS acting secretary Eric Hargan, said.
“The opioid epidemic kills 175 Americans every day. That means we’ll lose seven of our fellow Americans to drug overdoses during this press briefing alone. That kind of urgency is Mr Trump had called for HHS to declare an unprecedented nation-wide public health emergency,” he said.
