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Salute to Doctors and Hospitals
Cuomo pushes
for stimulus to
avoid state cuts
Photo by Todd Maisel
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill introduced
a massive stimulus package on
Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged
Congress to include a provision that
would compensate state and local governments
for their efforts to battle the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The Health and Economic Recovery
Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES)
Act, introduced into the House
of Representatives on Tuesday by representatives
Nydia Velazquez, Carolyn
Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, is a $3 trillion
stimulus package that would extend
hazard pay for frontline health
care workers, forgive student debt, and
grant assistance to state and local governments,
among other measures.
New York particularly needs the aid,
according to Cuomo, who said that the
state needs $61 billion in new federal
funding to avoid massive cuts in the
state budget. Without that infusion in
the HEROES Act, the state would likely
be cut the budgets of schools, local governments,
and hospitals by 20 percent.
Cutbacks to medical centers would
be particularly dreadful, the governor
observed, given the essential role
healthcare workers played in saving the
lives of those who contract the virus.
“Hospitals are the nurses and doctors
who just got us through this, and
everyone celebrates them as heroes,”
Cuomo said. “If we can’t fund the state,
that’s who we’re hurting.”
The House bill would include $67 billion
in aid to New York governments,
including $34.4 billion to the state, $17.2
billion for New York City and $15.1 billion
for other localities, according to
Congresswoman Nita Lowey and Senator
Charle Schumer. The Senate and
president would have to approve the fi -
nal version of the HEROES Act.
The governor slammed previous federal
stimulus bills for being tainted by
partisan politics and laden with porkbarrel
spending for states that don’t
need as much relief as New York. The
HEROES Act, Cuomo urged, must not
be an opportunity for lawmakers to
“bring home the bacon,” but rather a
genuine, national effort to bring relief
to states and Americans in need.
Cuomo said that he and Maryland
Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican,
would issue a joint statement on behalf
of the National Governors Association
calling for the HEROES Act to provide
substantial fi nancial relief to states and
governments hard hit by COVID-19.
The new bill, Cuomo observed, must
also include landlord and renter assistance,
infrastructure improvement
projects, increased payroll protection
to preserve jobs, funds to help cover
funeral expenses, and a repeal of the
cap on state and local tax exemptions
(SALT) that was part of the Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act passed in 2017.
The governor also stressed the importance
of avoiding “bailout boondoggles”
in the HEROES Act. He recalled
the fi nancial packages passed during
the 2008 fi nancial crisis that enabled
banks and large corporations to pass
the funding down to employees rather
than provide relief to Americans at
large.
Cuomo warned of a “new scam” in
which corporations might choose to layoff
workers and not rehire them after
receiving aid. He pushed for the passage
of an “Americans fi rst” law that would
ensure that any large corporation seeking
federal fi nancial help would be denied
that assistance if they do not rehire
the same number of employees they had
before the pandemic.
Members of the New York delegation
have agreed to introduce such legislation
into Congress, the governor added.
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