Shomari Figures: “Too many people fought and sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to serve in Congress for me to just walk away. I…”

That’s in large part because I’ve had the privilege to represent over half of this new district already. We’ve shown up in the communities. We’ve shown them how we can deliver results.

While these funds will provide some much-needed relief to our rural hospitals, we cannot forget that this funding came at the expense of kicking at least 10 million people off Medicaid.

This bill came out of committee with unanimous support, with no one voting against it, and so we anticipate something like this being able to work its way through and get on the House floor soon, but we don’t know exactly when that will be.

The opponent doesn’t change the focus. The focus has always been and will always be the people of this district.