New York Allocates $2.1 Billion for Illegal Immigrants, Other ‘Excluded Workers’
New York legislators this week agreed to establish a $2.1 billion fund that will give money to illegal immigrants and other so-called excluded workers who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic but were ineligible for federal stimulus money.
The Excluded Worker Fund will pay out one-time unemployment benefits to workers who lost their jobs or income during the pandemic.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, essential workers across the state risked their lives to keep our state moving and our families safe,” Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, said in a statement. “When unemployment rates skyrocketed last summer, many of those selfless workers were excluded from any type of federal assistance during this pandemic and we must take care of all New Yorkers.”
Andrew Cuomo’s Reprieve
By the first week of March, it was clear that Andrew Cuomo was in trouble.
On March 5, the Democrat-led New York state Senate advanced legislation aimed at temporarily repealing the emergency powers the legislature granted the governor at the onset of the pandemic. Lawmakers insisted that they were merely seeking to reimpose checks on their imperious governor, but the circumstances that brought them to this point were more extraordinary than mere executive overreach.
In January, New York’s attorney general alleged that the Cuomo administration deliberately misled both lawmakers and the public about the true scope of the death toll in nursing homes, and they did so only in order to avoid the bad press that the truth would generate. One day before the vote, the
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Pressure mounts on New York Gov. Cuomo to resign as new allegations emerge Christopher Wilson
Bad news continued to mount Thursday for embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is under investigation both for multiple accusations of sexual misconduct and for mishandling nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fifty-nine state legislators called on the three-term governor to resign Thursday after a sixth account emerged: The Albany Times-Union, citing a source with direct knowledge, reported that an aide said Cuomo groped her at the governor’s mansion in Albany last year. Cuomo denied the charge while calling the details of the allegation “gut-wrenching.”
Nearly one year after liberals gushed over Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the anti-Trump pandemic hero, he is the latest in a series of “nice guys” who women can no longer trust. Five women have come forward with accusations of sexual harassment against Cuomo. The allegations range from innapropriate conversations about a former aide’s sex life.