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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer visited the Village of Dryden in Tompkins County Wednesday.

A vacant building in Cortland is set to house the mental health department serving the county and central New York.

“Having Chinese chips in our federal supply chains is a direct threat to our national security."

"These companies are gonna need this bill to help them with dollars, and I’ll help to push to allocate those dollars.”

The New York Democrat will follow federal health guidelines and quarantine this week while working remotely.

"I’m confident this is not one of these issues that will be in the partisan maw, we can get bipartisan support for it."

“We’ll be paid back many times over with greater peace in our communities, less violence in our communities."

The grant would help scale up parts of the manufacturing economy locally, including incentives for other companies in the battery manufacturing supply chain to relocate to the Southern Tier.

Senator Schumer said The Affordable Insulin Now Act is being met with bipartisan support and he anticipates it will pass within the next several months.

Schumer said the $1 trillion bill would create thousands of union jobs to complete federally-funded infrastructure projects.