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Veronica Escobar: “Those beds are for emergencies for this community, surgeries…”

Featuring: Veronica Escobar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 16

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LIVE: El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar holds press conference.

Published | Video Starts at 30:22

Basically telling our hospitals, we want to take your beds so that we can isolate someone with measles. Thankfully, we have health care leaders who pushed back. Those beds are for emergencies for this community, surgeries for this community, not to supplement what the federal government is failing to do or failing to fund. So there is a huge difference between the two administrations and the impact on the community and on the tax base with the two administrations and these three warehouses, really, … (30:22–30:33)

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Asserts that local hospital beds are intended for community emergencies and not to cover federal government shortcomings.

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