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FILE - This Oct. 10, 2013, file photo, shows an EpiPen epinephrine auto-injector, a Mylan product, in Hendersonville, Texas. Some big pension funds are urging shareholders of EpiPen maker Mylan to reject several company directors and the compensation it gives top executives, including the nearly $100 million Chairman and former CEO Robert Coury received last year. The pension funds say that the compensation came during backlash over prices the drugmaker charged for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment. They also note that the company agreed to make “extraordinary and egregious” payments last year and over the next five years to Coury.(AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)
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FILE - In this May 4, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump claps as he arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Washington, followed by Vice President Mike Pence after the House pushed through a health care bill. Trump has called the House-passed health care bill a “great plan,” but a new poll finds that three out of four Americans do not believe it fulfills most of his promises. The poll out May 31, 2017, from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation also found a growing share of the public concerned that the GOP’s American Health Care Act will have negative consequences for them personally by increasing their costs, making it harder to get and keep health insurance, or reducing quality. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Illustration on the federal government's sad history regarding the hiring of veterans by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during an election campaign of her Christian Democratic Union, CDU, and the Christian Social Union, CSU, in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, May 28, 2017. Merkel is urging European Union nations to stick together in the face of new uncertainty over the United States and other challenges. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)
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In this April 27, 2017 photo, Gretta Brundage measures pasta at Hoss's Steak and Sea House near Grove City, Pa. Gretta and Hoss's were paired through Intermediate Unit IV's Pre-Employment Transition Service/Community Based Vocational Training Program. (Renee Carey/The Herald via AP)
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Illinois state Sen. Kwame Raoul, D-Chicago, speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Springfield on Friday, May 26, 2017. What qualifies as Illinois Democrats' spring compromise on cost-cutting changes to the workers' compensation program won Senate approval Friday, leaving derisive Republicans without a major, previously agreed-to cost-saving concession. Raoul sponsored one measure requiring state Insurance Department-approved rates based on market need. (AP Photo/John O'Connor)
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Workers huddle in front of the scene of an accident at a construction site Friday, May 26, 2017, in Oakland, Calif. Officials say scaffolding and wet concrete apparently gave way at the building site in the San Francisco Bay Area, injuring over a dozen workers. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Workers inspect the scene of an accident at a construction site Friday, May 26, 2017, in Oakland, Calif. Officials say scaffolding and wet concrete apparently gave way at a building site in the San Francisco Bay Area, injuring over a dozen workers. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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In this May 18, 2017, photo, Nathan Singletary, 67, a social worker for 40 years, fills out paperwork at the AARP Foundation in Harrisburg, Pa. Singletary is beyond the traditional retirement age, but he’s only just beginning a new career - helping other low-income, unemployed Americans over age 55 find jobs. Singletary got his job through the half-century-old Senior Community Service Employee Program, a training and placement program underwritten by taxpayers aimed at putting older Americans back into the workforce. (AP Photo/Laurie Kellman)
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In this May 18, 2017, photo, Nathan Singletary, 67, a social worker for 40 years, listens as Employment Specialist Luz Rivera, 68, interviews program participant Luis Quinones, 66, center, at the AARP Foundation in Harrisburg, Pa. Singletary is beyond the traditional retirement age, but he’s only just beginning a new career - helping other low-income, unemployed Americans over age 55 find jobs. Singletary got his job through the half-century-old Senior Community Service Employee Program, a training and placement program underwritten by taxpayers aimed at putting older Americans back into the workforce. (AP Photo/Laurie Kellman)
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In this May 18, 2017, photo, a sign for the Senior Community Service Employment Program at the AARP Foundation in Harrisburg, Pa. The half-century-old Senior Community Service Employee Program, is a training and placement program underwritten by taxpayers aimed at putting older Americans back into the workforce. President Donald Trump says there are too few participants who find work that’s not paid for by the federal government. This week, he proposed deleting the $434 million program from the federal budget _ a strike at a piece of President Lyndon Johnson’s “war on poverty.”(AP Photo/Laurie Kellman)
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In this May 18, 2017, photo, Nathan Singletary, 67, a social worker for 40 years, listens as Employment Specialist Luz Rivera, 68, interviews program participant Luis Quinones, 66, front right, at the AARP Foundation in Harrisburg, Pa. Singletary is beyond the traditional retirement age, but he’s only just beginning a new career - helping other low-income, unemployed Americans over age 55 find jobs. Singletary got his job through the half-century-old Senior Community Service Employee Program, a training and placement program underwritten by taxpayers aimed at putting older Americans back into the workforce. (AP Photo/Laurie Kellman)
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In this photo provided by William Camargo, taken in 2014, Jose Victor Camargo is seen Anaheim, Calif. Suddenly jobless and with small children to support, Jose Victor Camargo without hesitation cashed out a retirement account he had with his former employer. That was more than a decade ago, and the father of three used the money to pay for rent and stay afloat until he found another job. “We are always in need, so I used the money,” he said in Spanish. “We were struggling. We tried to make the money stretch.” (Courtesy of William Camargo via AP)
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This undated handout photo provided by Rumpus PR shows Martyn Hett, one of the victims of attack at the Manchester Arena on Monday, May 22. A Manchester PR company has paid tribute to Martyn Hett, its digital manager and a man who “loved life and celebrated it every day.” Hett, reported to be 29, had appeared on reality TV shows “Tattoo Fixers” and “Come Dine With Me.” His employer, Rumpus, said on its website he had packed life “to the brim with his passions.” (Rumpus PR via AP)
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Illustration on the benefits of biofuel by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this May 17, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. takes questions from reporters in Washington. The Trump administration and House Republicans are asking a federal appeals court for a 90-day extension in a case that's casting a shadow of uncertainty over health insurance for millions of consumers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Un-Happy Meal From High Minimum Wage Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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This April 28, 2017 photo shows a sign that says "We're hiring" outside a Panasonic "maquiladora" in an industrial park in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas. A long-time factory worker said he worried that if maquila jobs decrease, the unemployed would fill the ranks of a drug cartels that control Mexican border towns. (AP Photo/Christopher Sherman)
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Surrounded by a group of visiting school children from Lakewood, N.J., New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a news conference in his offices in Trenton, N.J., Monday, May 22, 2017. Christie is touting the state's 4.1 percent unemployment rate as he urged voters in this year's race for governor not to vote for candidates who will reverse his policies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
