Pat Ryan: “Then all of a sudden we are going to have a pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan before 10 years is over, this money is all…”

Pausing this critical project, without warning or explanation, is a slap in the face to our Hudson Valley community.

For months, I’ve been pushing at every level to help secure this official Disaster Designation, which will now unlock millions of dollars in emergency loans and resources to help our farmers and growers begin to recover.

I hear it from people everyday: costs, especially housing costs, are still way too high.

We’re doing generational damage to the sense that the military is an apolitical trusted organization that swears an oath to the Constitution, not to a president.