A bipartisan group of Congress members is asking the Treasury Department to allow states to use funding from the most recent stimulus bill to combat the opioid epidemic. “We write to urge that any guidance clarifying permissible uses of the American Rescue Plan’s State and Local Government Fiscal Recovery Fund clearly allows recipient governments to spend those awards to combat the worsening overdose crisis,” the group wrote in a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. “State and local governments are on the front lines of responding o overdoses, a crisis intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, and they need maximum flexibility to use every resource available to them to provide mental health and addiction treatment supports,” they added. Reps. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.), David McKinley (R-W.Va.), David Trone (D-Md.), Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Susan Wild (D-Pa.), and Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) signed the letter. The American Rescue Plan was approved by …