NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday launched a blistering attack on President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus crisis, accusing him of “passing the dollar” to the states and preferring industry over neighborhoods hardest hit.
Cuomo, who had formerly kept his criticism of Trump in check, let loose a flurry of broadsides following a press reporter’s concern about the president’s remarks recommending New York had actually requested too much help that was never completely used.
The governor stated the president must “maybe get up and go to work” instead of seeing TELEVISION and implicated him of favoring the airline company industry and other company cronies in a current bailout bundle that Cuomo stated left little for the states.
Cuomo stated that he had actually fasted to praise the president when the state remained in alarming requirement of healthcare facility beds and ventilators and that his requests for aid with those were motivated by the White Home’s own alarming projections for the infection.
” We developed more beds than we required,” Cuomo, said pointing to preliminary federal projections on the effect of the virus which predicted that as lots of as 2.2 million individuals might pass away. “Our only error was believing your numbers and your projections.”
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