NY budget: Dems split over expanding unemployment pay to undocumented workers
Updated 4:37 PM;
Syracuse, N.Y. – Democratic state lawmakers are at odds over whether to expand unemployment benefits to undocumented workers, a sticking point in a budget that’s already late.
Earlier this year, both Democratic-controlled houses endorsed putting $2.1 billion toward workers unable to benefit from federal unemployment benefits. That includes some undocumented workers.
But more recently, some Democrats have pushed back, saying money should go to help small businesses, the New York Post has reported.
More progressive members, including many New York City-area Senate Democrats, such as Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, are not backing down from funding the “excluded workers” fund.
New York Assembly Republicans on Thursday began the impeachment process against Governor Cuomo.
The Republican lawmakers announced a resolution to create an impeachment commission, the first step in the process of impeaching and ousting Cuomo.
This announcement comes one day after New York Senate Democrats moved on Wednesday to strip Governor Andrew Cuomo of his Emergency pandemic powers.
On Thursday, Assembly Republicans announced a resolution to create an impeachment commission consisting of eight bipartisan members of the legislature. The panel would have 60 days to conduct its work and submit its findings and recommendations to the state legislature.
“The Cuomo Administration’s nursing home cover-up is one of the most alarming scandals we’ve seen in state government,” Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay said in a statement. “It is incumbent upon the Legislature to undertake a comprehensive, bipartisan review of the Cuomo Administration’s policies, decisions an
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