"It's bad enough people are losing their jobs, and don't have food to eat, are separated from their families and loved ones," Schumer said. "But to not be able to give a decent funeral and burial to someone who is near and dear to you is outrageous."
The two Democratic lawmakers from New Yorkers appeared at a press conference outside Elmhurst Hospital in the ironically named Queens neighborhood of Corona, which has had the greatest number of positive COVID-19 cases in the state.
Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez pushed for the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) to grant the state access to the relief under the Disaster Funeral Assistance program, which the organization ordered in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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ReplyDeleteCan they help bury those killed by drug overdoses?
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot more of them.
Can they help bury those killed by traffic accidents?
There are a lot more of them.
How about those who die from Cancer?
Heart attacks?
Diabetes?
Hell, we pay to support these non working freeloaders when their alive, now the Democrats expect us to bury them on our dime also. You can’t make this up.
ReplyDeleteSchumer, as always, overblows the issue and expects everyone to pay for it.
ReplyDeleteHell no. Let the Democrats use their money from George Soros to bury them, since Soros has a major part in this contamination of the Coronavirus. Make Soros and the Democrats pay for their own mistakes.
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