By: Jared Evan
With Governor Cuomo’s undercounting of nursing home deaths drawing heavy scorn from both sides of the aisle, Nancy Pelosi has a different bone to pick with Hollywood’s favorite governor, she slammed Andrew Cuomo’s claim that COVID aid is short of the $15 billion needed and said the federal package is worth $70 billion.
In recent weeks, a court order and state attorney general report has forced the state to acknowledge the nursing home resident death toll is nearly 15,000, when it previously reported 8,500 — a number that excluded residents who died after being taken to hospitals, Daily Mail summarized.
The new toll amounts to about one-seventh of the people living in nursing homes as of 2019 in New York
Only a month ago, Cuomo received a Emmy for his daily Corona Virus updates The award ceremony had several Hollywood figures including Spike Lee, literally gushing and practically elevating the Governor to sainthood
The House Speaker sent a letter to congressional Democrats touting the settlement, which would far exceed the under-fire governor’s demands, as she strongly rejected his repeated claims the state was being short-changed in yet another rebuke from his own party.
One time considered a front runner for a future presidential run; now even left-wing sycophants like Trevor Noah of Comedy Central have attacked Cuomo for the Nursing Home scandal. After all the scorn and criticism, the governor took to the air to blame nursing home staff and visitors for the COVID deaths.
Daily Mail reported: In the two-page letter, Pelosi touted the proposal for $50bn in state and local funding for New York and $20bn to help families’ ‘health, financial security and well-being’ and insisted Cuomo’s demands had been ‘addressed’.
She wrote: ‘We sadly observe over 1.5 million coronavirus cases, nearly 45,000 deaths, and hundreds of thousands of job losses in New York. Please know that your concerns are being addressed in ways that you have advanced and with the enthusiastic advocacy of Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.’
Recently Cuomo Complained “The state needs $15 billion, and that’s the actual need and that’s what we should get and if we don’t get $15 billion, I will be disappointed and I don’t think it’s fair”
CNN remains the only outlet to barley mention the hottest scandal in NY politics and possibly the country right now, as Andrew’s brother Chris Cuomo is still at a helm of the low rated prime time opinion program.