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Ritchie Torres: “Hospitals in New York are bleeding and instead of treating it as an emergency, it feels to us like FEMA is moving…”

On the recordJune 13, 2022
Hospitals in New York are bleeding and instead of treating it as an emergency, it feels to us like FEMA is moving bureaucratically as though it were business as usual.
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Ritchie Torres
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Torres criticizes FEMA's slow response to COVID-19 funding for hospitals.

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