Cuomo To Be Stripped Of Emergency Powers

[TTL News 313]

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Legislators from New York's Assembly and state Senate struck a deal Tuesday to strip Gov. Andrew Cuomo of his pandemic-linked emergency powers and return matters like lockdowns to local control.

The deal would reverse emergency powers granted to Cuomo exactly a year ago, in the early days of the COVID pandemic, that gave him free rein to order measures like quarantines. 

“I think everyone understands where we were back in March and where we are now. We certainly see the need for a quick response but also want to move toward a system of increased oversight, and review. The public deserves to have checks and balances. Our proposal would create a system with increased input while at the same time ensuring New Yorkers continue to be protected,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said in a statement.

 

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[KarenK 384]

Amazing how quickly they all agreed on that.  Just last week I believe the majority run house voted not to remove those powers and just let them expire.  In May.

[Chris 2,213]

They smelled blood.

[Chris 2,213]

Must be they weren't hungry, he's saying now that emergency powers are being extended beyond April 30 so long as there is a pandemic according to the federal government, and with some changes that appear to simply give more authority to the legislature.