Mayor Malik Evans holds ROC Resilience Roundtable, discusses federal issues
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Mayor Malik Evans held a second roundtable on Monday, bringing local leaders, organizations, and businesses together to discuss recent federal issues.
The ROC Resilience Roundtable was held at the New Genesis Missionary Baptist Church.
Topics discussed included uncertainty surrounding funding to sanctuary cities and how federal cuts to Medicaid could impact individuals living in Rochester.
Sanctuary cities, including Rochester, to receive notifications of non-compliance to federal law from Department of Homeland Security
'Every day there is something coming out of Washington [D.C.] that makes absolutely no sense. The city of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass are making it clear that we are not going to stand for it,' Mayor Evans said.
It was also announced that the City of Rochester is joining a lawsuit alongside other sanctuary cities against the federal government due to threats that federal funding would be cut from them.
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