House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is apparently not buying New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s claim that Congress’s proposed coronavirus relief package would not provide enough relief for the Empire State.
The speaker sent a letter to New York congressional Democrats this week, praising the federal proposal: $ 50 billion in state and local funding for New York and $ 20 billion to “promote the health, financial security and wellbeing of families. support”.
The proposed amount is much higher than the $ 15 billion the governor has repeatedly said the state needs to close New York’s budget deficit, according to the Times Union of Albany, NY, which covers the state’s capital region. The newspaper said it had received a copy of Pelosi’s letter.
“Unfortunately, we are seeing over 1.5 million coronavirus cases, nearly 45,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of job losses in New York,” Pelosi writes. “Please know that your concerns are being addressed in a way that you have developed and with the enthusiastic advocacy of Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.”
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The Times Union called the letter a “rare rebuke” from Pelosi, usually closely related to Cuomo.
The proposed aid, which would include more than $ 12 billion for schools, $ 8 billion for throughput and $ 3 billion for Medicaid, would likely help prevent potential budget cuts that threatened Cuomo, according to the New York Daily News.
The New York House Democrats had sent Pelosi a letter two days earlier asking for adequate funding, and Cuomo sent a letter to state lawmakers last week, demanding at least $ 15 billion in direct relief, according to the Times Union.
Cuomo echoed the $ 15 billion figure this week, when a breakdown of legislation reportedly showed that New York would only receive about $ 12.7 billion in direct funding from the state.
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Pelosi’s letter arrived Thursday, a day before Cuomo and other governors met with President Biden to discuss the Democrats’ $ 1.9 trillion aid package.
Following the meeting, Cuomo, president of the National Governors Association, said in a joint letter with Arkansas Governor Vice President Asa Hutchinson: ability to recover from this pandemic, ”said the Buffalo News.
Republicans have criticized the Democrats’ contingency plan, which may well go along party lines. New York Republican Tom Reed claimed that, according to the Time Union, it gives precedence to the “far-left compromise over the bipartisan”.
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The governor’s office reminded the Times Union of the statement about the White House meeting following the newspaper’s requested comment about Pelosi’s letter.