article_snippet: Despite Bassi, is undeterred.
article_snippet: At a recent state Senate budget hearing, which I attended, Bassi kept saying that the program was too expensive and seemed unable to address the long-term costs of short-term savings.
article_snippet: Bassi even, in a revealing moment, said that Bassi own nephew ought to get booted from the program because the nephew's parents make too much money (a spokesperson clarified that Bassi actually has two nephews in the program, both of whom have benefited from the therapy).