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Feb 17, 2021 09:11 PM EST
Republican elected leaders want an investigation into New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. They are calling for Cuomo to be impeached and his emergency powers nullified.
Republican elected leaders want an investigation
New York GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy last week, in a press conference, called for impeachment proceedings against Cuomo to commence. The press conference focused on the GOP s response to a divulgement from one of Cuomo s top aides to withholding the tally of deaths in New York s nursing homes during the pandemic.
New York Post indicated the apology by Melissa DeRosa to Democratic lawmakers in a recorded meeting. The State GOP has long been speaking out against the executive order that led to nursing home patients being transferred back to their facilities from the hospital, reported WHCU.
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A growing number of political figures in New York are calling for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s head - and job - following a new report that the state withheld information on COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes during the pandemic and the administration was aware of it.
The New York Post reported that Cuomo’s top aide, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, told Democratic state legislators in a meeting this week that the administration “froze” when asked to release data about the number of nursing home residents who had died from the virus.
It has been alleged that Cuomo’s administration withheld the information due to former President Donald Trump’s administration’s attempts to make the pandemic into “political football.”
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Local governments have not seen an increase in state funding in about a decade, Mayor Rich David, president of the New York State Conference of Mayors explained.
Then last year, the state withheld 5% of its funding to local governments, due to losses sustained from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mayor David says for his city in Binghamton, that is a loss of about $460,000.
“The overwhelming majority of all of our budgets goes to public safety so you’re talking about police officers, firefighters, paramedics, the people who collect your garbage and are responsible for sanitation,” David said. “This is not the time in the middle of a health crisis to be making cuts in those areas.”