While New York contributes billions more dollars to the federal government than it gets in return, McConnell's state of Kentucky relies on billions of dollars of federal funding each year, prompting Cuomo to ask, 'McConnell, who's getting bailed out here?'
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he doesn't think this is a time for politics. But seeing as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ventured into that territory first, well, Cuomo has some things to say.
McConnell drew bipartisan condemnation on Wednesday when he called federal funding for state and local governments"blue state bailouts," despite senators on both sides of the aisle asking for that funding. Cuomo took McConnell to task in a Thursday press conference, first laying out why he finds state and local government funding to be so important, and then decrying McConnell's"obsessive political bias and anger."NY Gov. Cuomo calls out Sen.
“If there was ever a time for humanity and decency … and a time to stop your obsessive political bias and anger, now is the time" pic.twitter.com/ubq0ohqTIqCuomo then brought up some cold hard numbers. While New York state contributes billions more dollars to the federal government than it gets in return, McConnell's state of Kentucky relies on billions of dollars of federal funding each year, prompting Cuomo to ask,"Sen.
Sen. McConnell, who's getting bailed out here? It's your state that is living on the money that we generate” pic.twitter.com/0iaBisvju9Even Fox News wasn't convinced when Trump claimed his disinfectant injection comments were 'sarcasm'
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