Jeff Van Drew: “Instead of tackling real issues that impact the true stakeholders of USDA, it is unfortunate that some of our colleagues…”

If you hurt these hospitals some will close, some people will have to utilize emergency rooms even more. … This is political stupidity; it’s political suicide.

No, I think that it’s possible. The point being that it is being done slowly.

But — there’s a big but with that — if we’re not ready, then we need to, for a year or a year and a half, renew the subsidy.

It’s morally bankrupt not to do it and it is politically stupid.