Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On the heels of a brand new and shocking Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that warns tick infections are spreading rapidly, and with temperatures across Central New York spiking into the 80’s, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer today revealed the CDC can do more to actively support the all-out local war against tick-borne diseases. Specifically, Schumer detailed that the feds now possess a new surge in CDC dollars – $900M more than last year to be exact—that can be tapped to fight tick-borne diseases across the Central New York. But, Schumer warned that – without urgent action – those same dollars could sit in bureaucratic limbo just as Central New York’s tick population explodes this summer. Specifically, Schumer is pushing to unlock some of these new federal dollars from the recently-passed bipartisan federal omnibus spending bill President Trump signed into law, so public health officials in Cortland County and across the Central New York can use them now, not after disease cases and public anxiety spikes.