{"id":527,"date":"2020-05-19T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/congressman-hakeem-jeffries-hosting-a-telephone-town-hall-on-heroes-act-and-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:06:10","slug":"congressman-hakeem-jeffries-hosting-a-telephone-town-hall-on-heroes-act-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Hosting a Telephone Town Hall On Heroes Act and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Submitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/\">NYC Newswire<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nikki.lucas1\">Nikki Lucas<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/jeffries.house.gov\/\"><strong>Hakeem Jeffries<\/strong><\/a> is having a telephone Town Hall to discuss the Heroes Act and the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the statement from the Congressman,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged America and left millions unemployed.\u00a0 New York has borne the burden of this public health crisis and our communities have experienced unthinkable pain, suffering and death.\u00a0 It\u2019s an all hands-on deck moment at every level of government.<\/p>\n<p>The Heroes Act provides substantial assistance to New York and other hard-hit states so that public health, public education, public transportation, public safety and other essential services can be maintained in the midst of this pandemic.\u00a0 The $3 trillion legislation supports our frontline workers and healthcare providers; bolsters coronavirus testing, tracing and treatment; creates additional direct payments to cushion the economic blow; extends unemployment benefits and will help the American people weather this storm.<\/p>\n<p>This is an extraordinary crisis and the Heroes Act is a necessary and extraordinary intervention. I strongly support this legislation and thank the Speaker and our distinguished Committee Chairs for their leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12354 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nycnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Hakeem-Jeffries-Covid-19-flyer-May-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To stay updated on health concerns in New York City be sure to tune in to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HealthyNYC.official\/live\"><strong>HealthyNYC TV<\/strong><\/a>, the <strong>Online Video Series<\/strong>, every <strong>Wednesday live at 6pm, <\/strong>produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/jig.media\/\"><strong>JIG Media<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/healthynyc.com\/\"><strong>HealthyNYC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted to NYC Newswire by Nikki Lucas Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is having a telephone Town Hall to discuss the Heroes Act and the COVID-19 pandemic. Here&#8217;s the statement from the Congressman, \u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged America and left millions unemployed.\u00a0 New York has borne the burden of this public health crisis and our communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}