Posted on 03/26/2020 5:17:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sharply criticized the $2.2 trillion U.S. emergency relief bill, saying it fails to adequately address the needs of local governments to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking on March 26, Cuomo said the economic toll of the CCP virus outbreak will be dramatic in New York and castigated federal officials for what he called a failure to address lost revenue in the relief package.
“I’m disappointed,” Cuomo said during the televised news conference. “I find it irresponsible. I find it reckless. Emotion is a luxury. And we don’t have the luxury at this time of being emotional about what they [Congress] did. When this is over, I promise you I’m going to give them a piece of my mind.”
Cuomo said the outbreak creates a “double whammy” of increased state costs and lost revenue as businesses shutter and workers are laid off.
“The congressional action, in my opinion, simply failed to address the governmental need,” Cuomo said, according to The Associated Press.
While the relief plan before Congress would send $5 billion for COVID-19-related expenses, Cuomo said the larger issue is lost revenue.
“This was the time [for Congress] to put politics aside,” Cuomo said. “Now is a time to actually step up, do the right thing, and do your job. And they haven’t as far as I’m concerned, especially when it comes to the governmental need.”
The governor said the state will have to adjust its budget plan for the fiscal year beginning April 1, because revenue figures are so uncertain.
The relief package is intended to flood the country with cash in a bid to stem the crushing effects on the U.S. economy of an intensifying epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people
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The richest city in America seems to get the most handouts and still cries that they’re not getting enough.
Cuomo can kma.
If the Governor were a wise man, he would have had the people of New York with a little cash stashed in a bank account for a rainy day. But he expects everyone else to fix his problems.
Is he still sitting in gront of a huge stockpile of masks and gowns while SEIU? nurses are posing in trash bags?
This guy is a real whiner.
Mario, you’re the governor. Quit whining, get out of that interview chair, and DO SOMETHING!
More! I want more!
If I were a NY City resident....all signs appear to me...leave the city ASAP (head upstate, or find relatives out of state). Zero confidence in the city government or the medical system to function.
THe odd thing is that it was intended to be an aid package for NYS which Andy has spent into oblivion.
they’re 7 billion in the hole, and growing by the day.
He’s really mad that the “checks” being cut are labeled a tax rebate rather than ordinary income.
Dude, you need to be talking to Nancy. That money to PBS and National Endowment of the Arts and Kennedy Center ain’t going to do jack for your predicament.
“Muh city more important than everyone else!!!”
That’s not a good presidential platform IMO.
Cuomo proudly boasted just a couple days ago NYC is an ‘international’ city with a huge Chinese population and thousands of them flew to China for the Chinese New Year last month. Wonder what they brought back?
GOV. CUOMO is unable to come up with creative answers on his own to solve New York’s Coronavirus situation.
Perhaps he should ask VICE-PRESIDENT PENCE how he was able to take on H1N1 while Governor in Indiana.
It’s always the same.
NYC wants it all. Every penny.
FUNY
“I’m disappointed,” Cuomo said ...”
Apparently you have been to focused on gun control...cazzo di testa.
God money I’ll do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to
God money nail me up against the wall.
God money don’t want everything he wants it all.
And just yesterday Gov. Cuomo in his briefing he told a national audience that if the federal government would send him the entire national stockpile of ventilators he would, in the indefinite future, pay the other states back “with interest.”
I wondered how he would do this and now I know: he would pay back the debt to other states with money the other states sent to New York.
What a guy.
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