President Trump announced he would devote ample federal resources to combating the opioid crisis which he declared an emergency two days after holding a major briefing on the opioid crisis at his New Jersey golf club"Were going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis," Trump said.Trump's bipartisan opioid commission urged the president to declare the crisis an emergency weeks before his announcement "With approximately 142 Americans dying every day, America is enduring a death toll equal to 11 September every three weeks,"-Trump's bipartisan opioid commission "This is a worldwide problem, not just a United States problem."