As a public servant, my mission is to make government work—efficiently, equitably, and in service of all communities. That’s why I find this moment in history to be devastating. We are faced with a U.S. Congress that has chosen to dismantle a critical pillar of our healthcare system to fund tax cuts, which will disrupt years of progress we’ve made to strengthen access to critical health services in neighborhoods across New York City.

The passage of the The One Big Beautiful Bill back in July will have severe consequences for working-class families across the nation, with particularly negative effects in Brooklyn and across New York City. At the state level, the funding cuts are estimated to result in as many as 1.7 million state residents losing their health coverage. At the local level,

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