Andrew Cuomo: McConnell's Bankruptcy Suggestion For States Is 'Really Dumb' | MSNBC

I also want to make a point from our friends in Washington, Senator McConnell, who is the head of the Senate. You know, we've been talking about funding for state and local governments and it wasn't in the bill that the House is going to pass. today they said don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, the next bill as soon as the Senate passed it, this current bill, Senator Mitch McConnell comes out and says maybe

states

should declare

bankruptcy

, okay, this is one of the

really

dumb

ones. ideas of all time and you know, I told my colleagues in Washington that I would have been furious if state and local funding was in this current bill because I don't think they want to fund state and local governments and not the fun ones

states

and locals.

Governments are incredibly short-sighted, they want to fund small businesses, fund airlines. I get it, but state and local governments fund police, firefighters, teachers and schools, how do they not fund police, firefighters, teachers and schools in the middle of this crisis? Yes, airlines. are important, yes, more business is important, so police, firefighters and health care workers, who are the front line workers, and when you don't fund the state, then the state can't fund, those services don't They make sense to me, they don't make sense either that the entire nation depends on what the governor does to reopen we have established that it depends on this governor it depends on this governor but then you are not going to fund the state government Woody I think I will do it alone, will you? how do you think this is going to work and then suggest that we are worried about the economy, states should declare

bankruptcy

?

This is how you are going to recover this national economy, if the states declare bankruptcy, you want to see the market fall through the basement. let the state of New York declare bankruptcy, let Michigan declare bankruptcy let alone, oh, that allows you to declare bankruptcy, California declares bankruptcy, you will see a collapse of this national economy, so Daun Vicious is saying when Senator McConnell said this is a blue state bailout, what he's saying is If you look at the states that have coronavirus problems, they tend to be democratic states. New York, California, Michigan, Illinois, they are democratic states, so if you fund the states that suffer from the corona virus, they are democratic states, they do not help the state of New York because it is a democratic state, what an ugly thought, I want I mean, just think about what you're saying, people died. 15,000 people died in New York, but they were predominantly Democrats, so why should we help them? time that you're going to set aside to let go of your pettiness and your partisanship and this political lens where you see the world through the Democrats and the Republicans and we help the Republicans but we don't help the Democrats that's not who we are. , it's just not who we are as a people, I mean, if there was ever a time for humanity and decency, now is the time and if there was ever a time to stop your obsessive political bias and anger, which is what has transformed into just political anger, now is the time. and you want to divide this nation politically now with everything that's going on, how receptive and how reckless.

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