I agree, but we already had it. We disbanded it. De Blasio never did it. Adams never did it. Cuomo, I mean, he. When he When [Andrew Cuomo] came into office as Governor, there were 40,000 beds for the mentally ill in state hospitals. He cut the budget to the point... there were only 4,000 beds left. beds left. So if you want to blame anybody, Andrew Cuomo, who's trying to reinvent himself, all these homeless, emotionally disturbed, our people, our Americans, our veterans, and we do nothing for them but pay lip service to them. (03:54–11:06)
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