...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 46.30695 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...vowed Sunday to fight "tooth and nail" against the Biden administration’s plan to close two Big Apple hospitals dedicated to caring for hundreds of thousands of New York City veterans.
Schumer (D-NY) announced he is starting a petition drive in the five boroughs in opposition to the federal Department of Veteran Affairs preparing to close two of the Big Apple’s three local VA hospitals.
"We are going to fight this proposal tooth and nail. We are going to put a dagger through its heart, and it’s not going to see the light of day," he said at a Sunday morning presser, while flanked by war veterans and elected officials in front of a Veterans Administration hospital in Manhattan.
"These are the people who risked their lives for us, and the only thing we said in return is, ’You’ll get good healthcare.’ These facilities give good healthcare," he added. "We’re not going to take them away.
"Who is going to take care of them? We are not going to turn our back on these veterans, plain and simple."
About 210,000 military veterans live in the five boroughs, according to the city Department of Veterans’ Services.