‘Fight The Virus Together And Make An Economic Recovery A Reality’
WASHINGTON–Governors Larry Hogan of Maryland, the National Governors Association chair, and Andrew Cuomo of New York, the NGA vice chair, issued the following statement about the need for state stabilization funding in the next COVID-19 relief bill:
“It has been over four months since the governors began to lead the coronavirus response in America – through implementing functioning testing programs and by slowing the spread through socially responsible but economically devastating closures of schools and businesses. To protect against the global pandemic, states shut down parts of our economies. The consequence has been a catastrophic loss of hundreds of billions of dollars to state budgets. The rapid economic downturn has left no region of the country untouched and has stressed every aspect of state delivery of critical needs and services to residents. In order to support states in the continuing pandemic response, a $500 billion state stabilization fund must be included in any COVID-19 relief package from the Senate.
“States are ground zero in this fight. We provide the critical services Americans depend on, including public safety, education, health care, food assistance, local aid and transportation. We also employ more than 20 million people across the country. And yet, of the $3 trillion in aid from four relief packages, no unrestricted federal support to stabilize state budgets and account for the economic loss states face as a direct result to fight COVID-19 has ever been included.
“Governors, by law, must balance our budgets each year. Given the sharp drop in economic activity as a direct result of the pandemic economic shutdown and the corresponding reduction in tax receipts, state budgets are in tatters. Governors have already cut budgets and reduced our payrolls by 1.5 million people, but without Senate action, we will need to make steeper cuts and reduce payrolls even more, at precisely the time when these services are needed most.
“As states follow safe and responsible reopenings, we cannot imperil our economic recovery efforts by slashing state programs that pay our teachers, firefighters, health care and front-line workers. To protect our economy and keep the recovery going forward, Congress must provide states with $500 billion in unrestricted assistance, and an increase of Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) to 12 percent.
“We need the Senate’s strong support now, so we can fight the virus together and make economic recovery a reality.”
8 comments:
Boy he loves that New York bastard don't he.
Fat boy looking for exposure. He already has too much. Enough to put him in with the likes of the previous failure..O’Malley
Hogan and Homo
I bet they run in 2020 also
Now you can see why these two have done what they did to our States, our economies, our jobs and our lives....all so they could extort billions from the tax payers threw Federal purse strings, bailouts. But its we the people that must pay these debts. Its you and I that must foot the billions for their mismanagement, their games, their abuses. The new mafia.
Leave it to Larry to be first in line for a handout.
I still dont understand why the federal government should have the responsibility to bail out all these cities and states that have done a great job at lining their own pockets or pockets of people they know with taxpayer money and now that the bill is coming due, want the federal government to kick in money so they look good. Im sorry, I dont want to pay for California's lack of fiscal responsibility or new yorks, or Chicago, etc. etc. Not my problem. They lived on the taxpayers teat so long now they must bear that burden. I hear their tax base is moving out to other places. I hope they do not vote in the same filth that they did in their old homes.
larry the leader? what a freakin joke! larry the ahole! piss off and go away you fraud!
Where is the $9 million for Korean non approved test kits?
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