Political Quotes

“Madam President, I just got back from Albany and Syracuse, where I visited two of our community health centers--the Syracuse Community Health Center and the Hometown Health Center in Schenectady. These community health centers do amazing work--amazing work. They provide good, effective, efficient healthcare for so many people. In New York State, about 2.4 million people get help from the community health centers. In Central New York that I visited in Syracuse, about 80,000, and in the Capital Region, where Albany is, 110,000. Let me say that when President Trump instituted his freeze, his funding freeze, it sent shock waves through these two centers and hundreds of others across the country. All of a sudden, payments frozen, funding frozen--no reasoning, no logic, nothing. They wondered: Do they have to lay off people? Could they pay the rent? They wondered if they could give healthcare, you know, for someone who had a 2-week plan. Maybe the doctor shouldn't prescribe it in week 1 because money wouldn't be around in week 2. They depend on Federal funding. They get somewhere between 15 to 20 percent of their funding. They have been going on since the 1960s and delivering great, efficient healthcare. And, all of a sudden, this funding freeze drops on them like a ton of bricks. And it wasn't just community health centers--veterans organizations, mental health, organizations that provide mental help for people, Head Start.…”