Over the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, referring to a story of a veteran from Rochester, New York, who had reportedly committed suicide because he couldn’t pay his mortgage, tweeted, “We recently learned the tragically sad story of a veteran in the Rochester region. When he stopped receiving increased unemployment insurance, he couldn’t pay his mortgage and heartbreakingly committed suicide. I just demanded we pass suicide prevention acts.”
Schumer reportedly left the tweet, which was termed “horribly tone deaf,” up for hours before deleting it.
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