Growing increasingly frustrated by a lack of aid from the federal government, Governor Cuomo responded to a Twitter attack from Trump with his most striking criticism of the president yet: “He’s doing nothing,' by skleb1234
He said that telling state governors to handle reopening without providing any additional federal funding is like “passing the buck without passing the bucks,” a comment which sparked the initialOf the three bills passed by the federal government to address the coronavirus crisis so far, state governments have gotten “precisely zero” unrestricted funding. “How is [that] even a plausible strategy?” Cuomo asked, voicing his frustration.
The New York governor, who has criticized the past federal legislation for not providing anywhere near enough funding to his state and others, repeated again on Friday that “allocation should be proportionate to the need.” Some states received about $200,000 per every Covid-19 case they had, Cuomo described, but New York only got around $12,000 for each of its cases—“how do you justify that?”Widespread testing is the next “major challenge” before the country can reopen, but states need federal partnership and additional funding to do that, he said.
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