New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo was able to ignore reporters’ scrutiny during his prominent visit to the White House on Friday, when his state’s nursing home scandal seems to have entangled him with new political problems. .
Cuomo, president of the National Governors Association (NGA), joined President Biden, Vice President Harris and other governors and mayors – including NGA vice president, Republican Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson – in the Oval Office to discuss the national response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden did not answer questions from the press during the event in the Oval Office and Cuomo did not join Hutchinson when the Arkansas governor spoke to reporters outside the White House later in the day.
Cuomo and Hutchinson subsequently issued a joint statement saying the White House meeting was “productive” and asked Congress to approve an aid package with “sufficient state and local aid”.
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“The finish line of this pandemic is in sight and this support will give states and territories the resources we need to reach it, while we continue to provide the essential services that our constituents depend on,” they said.
Cuomo’s own response to the outbreak is facing scrutiny after a couple of bombastic reports from the Associated Press and the New York Post revealed that his administration not only sent more than 9,000 positive COVID patients to asylums in the first weeks of the pandemic. of its own officials admitted to withholding data on the number of COVID deaths in assisted living facilities while apologizing to the state’s Democratic lawmakers.
The governor now faces cover-up charges and is receiving reactions even from members of his own New York State Senate party, who call for the revocation of his emergency powers. Other critics call for Cuomo’s resignation and an investigation by the Justice Department to examine how he handled asylums during the pandemic.
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Cuomo has been celebrated by members of the mainstream media for his daily briefings, which has resulted in the receipt of a special Emmy Award.
CNN and MSNBC skipped the bombshell on Thursday night, keeping their focus almost exclusively on former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.