Republicans are threatening to shut down the government unless they can take away health care from millions of workers and families to fund billionaire tax cuts. In the #NY19 this would mean thousands will lose their health coverage or see their premiums skyrocket.

Proud to stand in Ithaca today with the Tompkins-Cortland Building & Construction Trades Council and all of our local union workers to call on developers to hire safe, local, union labor for construction projects. Let’s put people over profits and ensure workers are getting adequate safety training.

Home care transforms lives. It allows hundreds of thousands of disabled and older New Yorkers to live with dignity in their own communities.

Read my Op-Ed in the Press & Sun Bulletin: www.pressconnects.com/story/opinio...