Richard Blumenthal: “You cannot have a network that is at once designed to dump your more expensive patients and at the same time is designed…”

There’s no excuse for this administration disobeying the law and withholding this funding.

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.

“After all those horrific deaths and public outcry, we were told DHS was going to change,” he said. “Again and again, those promises were proven false.”

This disaster declaration is a strong step toward bringing federal aid to Connecticut following severe floods last month.