“It’s a whole of U.S. government effort, we would not be in the position we’re in now, and I believe we’ve saved dozens of lives in the past three months, without the help of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, without the help of the U.S. Coast Guard, the medical corpsman and woman who who joined us in providing medical checks as these families and children arrived,” he explained. “So, it’s not something we can do just internally, the funding will help dramatically, but we need the resources of the whole government.”