Niou, a progressive Democrat who began representing Chinatown, the Lower East Side and Lower Manhattan in 2017, has for years reiterated a claim Asian Americans received no money — or even a …
Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, who announced Saturday she is running for Congress, has repeatedly, and incorrectly, claimed that Albany pols ignored Asian Americans — until she was elected.
“Until I was elected, Asian Americans, the word ‘Asian Americans’ has never been in our New York state budget. And that is incredibly insane,” she said during an April 6, 2020, podcast.“We passed a budget that included $10 million for our Asian-American organizations to have some funding on the state level. Before I was elected there was zero funding.”
But a review of state budget documents shows that the phrase Asian American appeared in most budget budget bills between 1997 and 2016.
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