Mitch McConnell is still skeptical about giving state and local governments federal aid, claiming that “the only way to rescue this economy is to get back to normal”
to prohibiting such requests for federal aid as “stopping Blue State Bailouts,” a comment that Governortook issue with. “It really is offensive,” the New York Governor said. “You talk about one issue where you think you can get past partisanship and pettiness, and now you talk about helping communities where people are dying, and you say they are blue states?”
Cuomo, describing McConnell musing about bankruptcy as “one of the really dumb ideas of all time,” noted that the Senator’s home state receives a disproportionate amount of federal funding compared to New York. “We’re the number one state in donating to the federal pot,” Cuomo at a press conference, while “Kentucky is the number three state in taking from the federal pot.” On Tuesday, thereported that McConnell said that while declaring bankruptcy is not possible for states, it is “an option” for cities, “though he recalled mentioning that approach only as a possibility, not as a recommendation for navigating out of financial woes brought on by the coronavirus.”
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