Democrats Not Doing Enough for Mental Health Crisis

In October, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer took to Twitter to share the story of a veteran in Rochester, New York, who couldn’t pay his mortgage after his enhanced unemployment benefits expired and took his own life.

Here was Schumer’s opportunity to speak to the cascading series of policy failures that led to a veteran not being able to pay his mortgage during the worst viral outbreak of the modern era. But, in true Democratic Party fashion, he missed the glaringly obvious, calling not for the cancellation of rent and mortgage payments, or monthly survival checks, but instead a grant program for hospitals to better monitor those at risk of self-harm.

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