Political Quotes

“this bill would undermine the ability of States, cities, and towns across this country to make decisions about what is best for their communities. It would silence and hamstring public health experts who have guided our Nation out of the darkest days of a pandemic that has killed 1,139,000 people in our country in 3 years. Let me repeat that. This disease has killed 1,139,000 people already, and doctors and experts are saying that COVID is coming back. It is on the rise, once again. This provision would violate a long-held belief in the Republican Party that States and localities should not be told what to do by a Federal Government removed from the realities that they are seeing on the ground in their neighborhoods. This bill is little more than an attempt by Republicans to dismantle a public health infrastructure that had to be built in order to deal with this greatest of pandemics since 1918. What public health experts and the medical professionals are talking about is an upcoming COVID and flu and RSV season and preparing for it. These healthcare heroes are the same ones who risked their lives to save lives, and we should continue to protect that right to make decisions on the health of their patients, of their communities, and that is what locally focused healthcare is all about. Here is what we do know. Last year, the combined forces of this ``tripledemic'' of flu, RSV, and COVID strained healthcare centers to a breaking point.…”